Package: installation-reports Version: daily-2003-11-19 Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-19 http://www.mmweg.rwth-aachen.de/~sebastian.ley/d-i/netinst-image-i386/daily-2003-11-19/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux dirk 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Mon Dec 1 00:39:50 CST 2003 Method: network install (mirrors.kernel.org), boot from netinst CD (IDE) Machine: Powerspec PS8420 Gigabyte GA-8IDML motherboard (more details: http://dm93.org/z2001/DirkMachine) Processor: Pentium 4 Memory: 1GB Root Device: 30GB IDE disk Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hdb: 30.7 GB, 30735581184 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 10 140 1052257+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 141 3736 28884870 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 141 271 1052226 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdb6 272 348 618471 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdb7 349 414 530113+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb8 415 1720 10490413+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hdb9 1721 2693 7815591 83 Linux /dev/hdb10 2694 3736 8377866 83 Linux Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 12) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12) 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12) 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) 02:00.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics LT WinModem (rev 02) 02:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12) 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I tried to actually use the 'sid' option when choosing a mirror. I guess I shouldn't have expected it to work, but perhaps some text in the dialog to that effect is in order. When I rebooted, I couldn't use my USB keyboard to "OK" the 'welcome back' dialog. I had to plug it into the PS/2 port. I continued adding stuff after the base install that exposed some hardware issues... The XFree86 hardware detection *almost* worked; it figured out I have a NEC LCD1700M+NEC, but it got the HorizSync wrong, which resulted in skipping the 1024x768 mode and only using 800x600. Any clues on which package that bug is in? Mouse configuration was a pain; I did it pretty much manually, by copying my /etc/gpm.conf from my sid system. Sound didn't work out-of-the-box; I discovered the sndconfig package... it figured out how to play a sound, but esd still wasn't working... I then remembered to update-modules and add myself to the audio group. Those are the problems I ran into. FYI, some more context: I was playing with grub, LVM, and reiserfs tonight, as well as debian-installer. They all seem to get along reasonably well: * This machine has been running debian (sid) for a long time. Tonight's install was on a 2nd IDE disk. * I tested some of the components of netinst ala: - grab netinst.iso above - mount it, using losetup - set up tftp and dhcp - EtherBoot a Sony Vaio laptop. That way, I was able to confirm that the 2003-11-19 build is a lot closer to the Chickenrun[1] than the 9 Nov beta release, just from the early stages of the install, without modifying my disks at all. The instructions in http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?DebianInstallerMknbi were pretty good; I tweaked them just a bit. (Wiki docs are great!). [1] from SP - First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer Contributed by: Jonathan Oxer http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=455 found from http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/46/ * The first time I actually burned netinst.iso to CD, I got errors from gtoaster. I tried to use the CD anyway, in case the errors were spurious. They weren't. The CD was bad. But the debian installer was fairly robust; it didn't lock up or crash; the diagnostics it gave when it couldn't read files were pretty reasonable. After 5 or 6 of them, I got the hint that the CD was bad and burned another one (using cdrecord). Then it worked much better ;-) * I'm pleased to see LVM and reiserfs support. I started by reading the LVM-HowTo http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ and using my existing sid installation to set up a volume group and filesystems to use for my new /home and /usr. I chickened out when it came to putting / on LVM, so I didn't really use the LVM configuration installer component. I did this install onto 2 partitions: an ext2 /boot and reiserfs /. Then, after the base install was done, I moved /home and /usr over to the LVM filesystems (using tar/cpio/etc.). Seems to work now. I intend to move /var likewise. * I had some fun with grub too. I didn't use the grub support in the installer; I installed grub in my sid system, and configured it to boot from the 2nd disk (that tooks some work: grub complained that (hd1,0) didn't exist until I got the BIOS to properly recognize the disk. I hadn't bothered to do that when I put the disk in the machine.) * I like the way popularity-contest is integrated into the install, though I'd rather send just one report a month or one a quarter than one per week. It took me a while to figure out how to file this report; it wasn't until I found a bunch of bugs files against the installation-reports package that I knew what was going on; in future release announcements and such, please link directly to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=installation-reports&archive=no as well as http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-support.en.html#s-bugreport -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux dirk 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
