Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Beta 2 on 2004-01-23 sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2/ vmlinuz from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images hd-media-initrd.gz from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images uname -a: Linux colossus 2.4.24csc #1 Sat Jan 24 03:56:05 PST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004-01-23 Method: I read http://d-i.pascal.at/, then installed from a Windows 98 FAT32 partition by downloading the CD image, kernel and initrd files, downloading a recent copy of LOADLIN.EXE, renaming the files to fit in 8.3, booting to DOS, and running the following batch file: @REM initrd.gz = hd-media-initrd.gz @REM cdimage.iso = sarge-i386-netinst.iso @REM vmlinuz = vmlinuz loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium Machine: Home built from parts. Nvidia Nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset, ECS Motherboard Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Memory: 512MB PC2700 DDR333 (single DIMM) Root Device: 80GB ATA HD Root Size/partition table: major minor #blocks name 22 0 10022040 hdc 22 1 19624 hdc1 Ext2 /boot for my last two Debian installs, but not this one 22 2 499968 hdc2 swap 22 3 1 hdc3 Extended partition containing hdc5 22 4 5502168 hdc4 ReiserFS / in my last Debian install 22 5 4000216 hdc5 FAT32 logical partition 3 0 78150744 hda 3 1 4883728 hda1 FAT32 Win98 system 3 2 1 hda2 3 5 4883728 hda5 Ext2 / in this Debian install 3 6 68380641 hda6 FAT32 Win98 data Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4) 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1) 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1) 00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3) 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4152 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4172 Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [ ] 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: Couldn't install from the network because the "forcedeth" reverse-engineered driver for the Nforce integrated Ethernet controller isn't in the installer kernel yet. I read the Debian Kernel compilation instructions at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html, downloaded the necessary .debs from packages.debian.org in Windows, went back and forth between Linux and Windows a few times to get all the missing package dependencies, put in the forcedeth 2.4 patch from http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/, configured and compiled the kernel, and the driver worked! Except since it isn't an official driver, modprobe doesn't seem to see it, so I used insmod. And since the network configuration wizard hadn't run during the installation process, I figured out /etc/network/interfaces from its man page. Then ping worked by address, but not by domain name. I eventually worked out that I had to create /etc/resolv.conf. Finally, the Internet was accessible! From there, it was just apt-get install foo bar baz. Phew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
