Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso from 4 Nov Method: cdrom install on vmware
Machine: vmware Processor: PIII 800MHz Memory: 196Mb in VmWare Root Device: pseudo-scsi, 1073 mb Root Size/partition table: 800 mb ext3 partition, another 273Mb partition swap Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] base-config: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: hw-detect did not properly detect the PCNet32 virtual network card. I had to switch to console 2 and "modprobe pcnet32". The error message says "Go back to "Detect network hardware and load corresponding modules" (in french)...but th emain menu showed after this does not have this option..:-). The only shown option is "Detect all hardware". This conforts my suggestion for avoiding reference to installation steps names in d-i debconf templates. This will for sure lead to several inconsistencies... The screen refresh problem when switching consoles is still there. Is someone working on it? About network config : no option is shown for manual (no DHCP) network configuration. And, yes, I used low debconf priority (which is the default, as far as I have seen). The "DHCP name" question is never asked, even with low priority for cdebconf. Choose mirror: The country names are now translated...but still sorted according to original version sort order. Thus "R�publique Tch�que" is before "Allemagne" and after "Costa Rica"..:-). I thought Denis had made modifications to cdebconf for sorting the translated items. Disk partitioning: No more choice between autopartitioning of manual-->go to manual and good ol' cfdisk (untranslated...but I've seen Alastair's efforts for correcting this). Maybe this was because both the virtual disks I use were already partitioned. Base system install: Debootstrap error. /target/var/log/debootstrap.log contains: ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists Install kernel: Says that two required steps haven't been executed: -automatic partioning..:-) -"debian installer utility dfor creatin fstab fil" ...but installs kernel anyway... Install boot loader: Only LILO was proposed. No GRUB. 2nd stage install after reboot: Nothing special except: -"continents" not consistent in French : "real" continents use capitals while "Oc�an" is all lowercase....this makes the tzconfig templates look strange. -Shadow package templates not translated. I am *very* angry against the package maintainer who waited really for a too long time before updating his package. Thus, the root and normal user prompting is made in english Hopefully, the updated package will hit testing soon. -cd-rom not detected-->thus I had to stop on minimal install. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
