Package: installation-reports Severity: normal
*** install-report.template_20031109 Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-09 http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta-1/sarge-i386-netinst.iso 118,161,408 bytes uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux Date: 2003-11-14 07:08 CET till 2003-11-15 13:15 CET Method: booting from sarge-i386-netinst in my standard IDE CD-ROM drive Machine: ASUS TX97-X Processor: Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz Memory: 256 MB Root Device: /dev/hdb6 IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 (you should specify does "name of device" mean something like /dev/hdb6 or the model name of the hard drive) Root Size/partition table: Partition Table for /dev/hdb ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- ----------- 1 0x00 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 248 63 4000122 2 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 3 0x00 0 1 313 0x05 254 63 1023 5028345 36820980 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 5 0x00 1 1 313 0x83 254 63 1023 63 32001417 6 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 128519 7 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 2088449 8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 2088449 9 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 1 514079 localhost:~# df -Tm Filesystem Type 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb6 ext2 61 39 20 67% / /dev/hdb9 ext2 244 1 231 1% /tmp /dev/hdb7 ext3 1004 106 848 12% /usr /dev/hdb8 reiserfs 1020 42 979 5% /var /dev/hda7 ext2 306 245 45 85% /home /dev/hda1 ext2 62 55 4 95% /mnt Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [E] 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] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Initial boot worked: [E] This CD didn't want to boot in my CD-ROM drive at all. It acts exactly as if there was no CD in the drive). It is a standard ATAPI CD-ROM SAMSUNG SC-148P connected to secondary slave. I have never any problems with booting any bootable CDs in this computer and this drive before, and older versions (snapshots 20030817 and 20030928) of sarge-i386-netinst booted flawlessly here. I have recorded the beta-1 CD three times: twice on a CDR and once on a CD-RW. All of them booted flawlessly both on a Sony PCGA-CD5 PCMCIA CD drive, and on a Sony Firewire CD-RW/DVD drive (in which all three CD's where recorded, once under one non-libre OS, and twice under Debian GNU/Linux with cdrecord) in a Sony PCG-C1MV notebook. All of them acted the same in my Smasung SC-148P CD-ROM drive (as if there was no CD in the drive). What I did, is that I booted from an older sarge-i386-netinst CD, and at the LILO boot: prompt, I change the CD to the new one (beta-1) and it worked. Nobody noticed :) Detect CD: [E] The CD worked correctly until the first reboot after the first part of the installation. Then the CD drive doesn't work. I have no idea why it installed some kind of a IDE-SCSI CDROM emulation, during bootup it displays: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 hdd: attached ide-scsi driver. scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CD-ROM SC-148P Rev: PS01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 This doesn't work at all, I don't know why it installed such a wierd thing as IDE-SCSI emulation, the CD-ROM drive always worked correctly under a standard IDE driver. If I try to mount it, I get: localhost:~# mount /cdrom ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 2 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 4 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 6 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 66 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 68 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 70 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 72 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 74 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 76 ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 78 /dev/hdd: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type Specifying the filesystem type doesn't help at all: localhost:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) Why don't drop LILO support from the installer and use only GRUB? I think noone will ever want to install such a stupid bootloader as LILO when GRUB is available. I don't like that it tries to install LILO without even asking if I prefer GRUB. I made it not touch my drive with LILO by saying /dev/hda333 to the question where do I want to install LILO, and then I was given the posibility to install GRUB. If you really don't want to drop LILO, just make a screen: Which bootloader do you want to use? GRUB/LILO. And make GRUB the default (when user taps Enter without pressing arrows...) The same thing with dselect versus aptitude. I think aptitude should be installed by default, and there shouldn't even be an option to install dselect, it's so terrible, that I think many people installing Debian the first time will throw away the Debian CD, and order Mandrake or some other crap, when they see such a terrible installation program as dselect. The last problem it that it called my host "localhost" while it asked for the hostname, and I entered "tarnica" there. I'm pretty sure I did that. A nice thing to have would be the possibility to save all the installation options in a config file, and be able to use that when installing some time later, doing a restore after a catastrophe, or while installing on a identical PC. That config file should also say which packages I have chosen to install, and one should be able to update it later with 'dpkg --get-selections' output later. Another option I'd apprecieate would be a question do we want a non-UTF-8 or a UTF-8 setup. The UTF-8 will setup everything, including the consoles (unicode_start, a console Unicode font, and everything else needed) in UTF-8 mode. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux tarnica.ctnet.pl 2.4.22 #1 Wed Oct 29 14:01:21 CET 2003 i586 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
