Package: installation-reports Version: daily 20040419 Severity: important
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: daily 20040419 uname -a: Date: 2004-apr-21 02:00 CET Method: netinst CD image Machine: Apple PowerBook G4 15" Processor: 1 PowerPC @ 867Mhz Memory: 512Mb Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci: 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: [E] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I installed the complete system on a new XFS partition but was unable of install yaboot because of #244957. So I rebooted the system using the installation disk and typed, at the boot prompt: hd:4 root=/dev/hda4 rw but the kernel was unable to mount the root partition probably because XFS isn't compiled into the default kernel (2.4.25-powerpc-pmac). I reinstalled everthing using ext3 and the new system mounted the root partition correctly. I believe that all filesystems offered during the installation need to be compiled *into* the kernel. When rebooting (with ext3) I found that /etc/fstab contained only one line: # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM After rebooting I kept the installation process until prompted for APT sources. The system found the installation CD inserted so it indexed it, but then I was unable to specify a different CD I have because I couldn't eject the first CD. I had to switch to the second console, login as root, execute eject, read the error message, find out the device name for the cdrom, execute 'eject /dev/hdc', switch back to the first console. Then I selected to do not use aptitude, dselect or apt-get and I still got a message about installing popularity-context but APT stopped asking for a cdrom but it couldn't mount it because of the wrong /etc/fstab After creating /etc/fstab, APT worked correctly. Bye, Giuseppe -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-1-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
