Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-03-07/floppy/{boot,root,net-drivers}.img Date: 8 Mar 2004 Method: boot from floppy, then modules loaded from the network Processor: Pentium II (Klamath), 266 MHz Memory: 95068 kB Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [ O ] Configure network HW: [ O ] Config network: [ O ] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ O ] Detect hard drives: [ O ] Partition hard drives: [ o ] comments Create file systems: [ O ] Mount partitions: [ o ] comments Install base system: [ O ] comments Install boot loader: [ O ] comments Reboot: [ O ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Problems: partman-auto: This machine didn't have free space on the hard disk, so when partman-auto showed its menu during the startup of the partitioner there were only two options: automatically partition the whole drive and custom partitioning. The problem is that the default option was the automatical partitioning of the whole drive rather then the custom partitioning. partman: The smileys are invisible so I could not see which partition is used and how it is used. This is because of missing characters in the loaded font. partman-partitioning: In order to free space for the new install I decided to resize an ext3 partition. The operation finished successfuly but almost all the time the progress bar was at 0% and I didn't know when this (quiet long) operation would stop. partconf-mkfstab: the generated /target/etc/fstab didn't contain entry for the swap space. Partman had generated correct file /var/lib/partconf/fstab.d/partman with swap space included, but in /target/etc/fstab the swap entry was omited. base-installer: The default kernel image was 386. This is a safe default, but a better had to be chosen (686 on this machine). base-installer: During the kernel download the message on the screen is "Installing the kernel ..." (or something like that). The problem is that the download can be quiet slow, the user is not informed what is going on so he/she could think that the installer has crashed. base-installer: The same problem with the download of the packages requested by apt-install. grub-installer: The generated boot menu included only the newly installed Debian system. There was also another Debian installation on this machine and it was not included in the menu. One possible place to discover the existing operating systems is partman because this is necessary for example in order to provide the user with the option to upgrade an existing Linux system (not necessary Debian). However there are many different boot-loaders, so we have to find how partman can make the information about the operating systems available to all boot loader installers. Comments: /var/log/partman was about 250kB and could be even bigger. This can be a problem on machines with small RAM. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
