Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: /~jbailey/d-i/sparc/2004-05-11/sparc64/netboot uname -a: Linux colin 2.4.26-sparc64 #1 Sat Apr 24 01:43:10 EDT 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux Date: Wed 12th May 2004 Method: network installation from www.mirror.ac.uk via http proxy Machine: Sun UltraSparc 1 Processor: TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire) Memory: 128MB Root Device: SCSI, /dev/sda1 Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 19 heads, 80 sectors, 2733 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1520 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 493 374680 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 493 1392 683240 83 Linux native /dev/sda3 0 2733 2077080 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 1800 2733 709080 82 Linux swap /dev/sda5 1392 1800 310080 83 Linux native sda1 / sda2 /usr sda5 /var Output of lspci: N/A, this machine only has SBus. Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] 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: Installation was done using a serial console. I have a log of the output if that would be useful. The installation was done with UK English. The dialog box / menu system seems to spend a lot of time redrawing the screen on a serial console. A plain text version was be useful, especially as it would also allow scrollback to be used to see what you just did. Failing that making the display code more efficient would help. The stable/testing/unstable selection appears under "Choose a mirror", and the guidance doesn't really explain the differences between them. "The installer failed to download a file from the mirror." The actual error was been completely discarded, which is rather useless for trying to diagnose the fault. It worked when retried. The first partition disks menu doesn't make sense, it talks about choosing the "guided partitioning tool", but that doesn't present that as a menu item. (Presumably it's what you get when you choose "Use free space"?) The manual partition tool is very tedious to use, constantly moving between different menus. It also fails to provide enough context in many of the menus; for example, when giving the amount of space to use for a parition you really need to be able to see what the rest of the parition table currently looks like. Many of the menus don't even say which partition you are currently working on. The usage method menu is unclear, surely setting up swap space is a form of formatting? Additionally, the main partitioning menu gives the impression that changes will only be written when you finish, yet some choices in the submenus perform actions immediately. It would be preferable if all changes were deferred until the final layout was decided. LVM failed with the message "The current kernel doesn't support the Logical Volume Manager. You may need to load the lvm-mod module." There is no apparent mechanism to load the module. The "Installation complete" message appears before installation is complete (near the start of the "Finishing the installation" process). I was also invited to "Make sure to remove the installation media" despite using a network booted image. Messages like INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes appeared during the configuration after rebooting, suggesting that inittab was set up rather later than it should have been. Apt configuration asked me questions I had already answered during the initial installation. I didn't select any packages (after choosing aptitude), but it installed popularity-contest anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
