Package: installation-reports Version: beta2 Severity: minor INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: beta2 (Jan 14, 2004) http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux donald 2.6.0 #5 Thu Dec 18 11:22:09 CET 2003 i686 GNU/Linux (please consider that this is my working system, not the just installed sarge test system) Date: Jan 14, 2004 12:00 CET Method: I used the 100 MB netinst CD without network connection (I have an etherned card, but pulled out the cable for testing purposes). I installed LILO into the partition and used my grub with chainloader to boot it. It worked well. Machine: Customary desktop Processor: AMD Duron 1.3 GHz Memory: 256 MB Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda1 Root Size/partition table: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/martin$ env LANG=C /sbin/fdisk /dev/discs/disc0/disc -l Disk /dev/discs/disc0/disc: 13.0 GB, 13010264064 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 25209 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/discs/disc0/part1 * 1 2072 1044193+ 83 Linux /dev/discs/disc0/part2 2072 25198 11655157+ 5 Extended /dev/discs/disc0/part5 2072 2566 248976 82 Linux swap (the other partitions were not used during test install) Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 81) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) 00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 43) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11) 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: [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: - I chosed language de-de; at the next screen (keyboard layout) the list shows wrong umlauts; the strings seem to be encoded in UTF-8, but they are displayed in latin1. Title and buttons at this window and all other forms are displayed okay. - the hostname was asked twice (first and very last question of network configuration, with all IP stuff in between) - I pulled out the ethernet cable for testing purposes, I wanted to install a non-networked system. It would be nice if d-i would ask _whether_ I want to configure network if DHCP is not available and not just force me to enter some IPs and gateways I don't have. Of course this may only be because I do have an installed network card. Is network configuration skipped when there is no network card? - LILO installation: instead of letting the user install clumsy devfs names, there should be a list of the MBR (i. e. /dev/.../disc) and all available partitions. I know and use devfs, but many users certainly don't know that they have to replace 'disc' by 'part1' when they don't want to install into the MBR. At least it should be explained. - base system does not install fsck.reiserfs, but that is already at the errata list. - although I chose de-de language in d-i, there were no locale set in the installed system; it would be nice if this would work. I just don't know if this is d-i's or base-config's responsibility? All in all, the installation process worked very well now, contrary to many problems in beta1 (repeated DHCP attempts, non-booting ISO etc.). You have done a GREAT job, thank you for this! Martin -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux donald 2.6.0 #5 Thu Dec 18 11:22:09 CET 2003 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Pitt Debian GNU/Linux Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piware.de http://www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
