Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Beta4 from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ the May, 7 2004 uname -a: Linux debian 2.6.5-1-k7 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:46:35 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: May, 7 2004 Method: I burned a CD of Netinst Beta4. I've got an Modem/router ADSL already connected on Internet, that provide everything by DHCP.
Machine: Compaq Presario 2100 Processor: mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2500+ Memory: 450352 kB Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda5 Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) Output of lspci: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc AGP Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 13) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 320M] (rev 01) 0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02) 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem] 0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) 0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1 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: [E] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: 1) Error : While formating, I've seen formating "mount_point" I think it should be : "/home" 2) Idea : When there is a NTFS partition at the beginning of the first disk, I think that the install of grub could assume it's a place to launch Windows. 3) Idea : Not possible to add "acpi=off" in grub configuration while installing. It could propose the argument given in the first line of install My line was : linux26 acpi=off 4) Idea : I've already seen grub with french keyboard map. It could be very nice, if Debian installer could adjust grub keyboard map with the keyboard map choose during install 5) Error : In partman, I already have a swap partition for Fedora Core on my PC. The swap is not detected! 6) Error : I assign to my not recognized swap partition the fact that it's swap, I use autopartition on my free space, the swap partition from Fedora is no more marked as swap, and a new swap partition is created for Debian. Since I don't want to loose 1GB, I've done partition manually. Sometimes the bootable flag on Windows partition disappear. 7) Error : The biggest problem. To install packages, I choose Tasksel, I choose everything but server related things. Everything has been downloaded OK. After the configuration of some packages. Nothing happen. I use CTRL+C to stop the program. Impossible to finish my install. I exit from install, reboot. After long long searches, I've seen a bug about xserver-xfree86 that doesn't install, it just blocks. No error code, I've got to it CTRL+C to stop apt-get install xserver-xfree86 I've found the bug 239719 in Debian Bug tracking system, it talks about a bug with the program called "discover". So I try discover and remark that it's not the same version as in the Bug report. So I try : apt-get install discover After some warnings, it seems OK, and now apt-get install xserver-xfree86 is OK. So my suggest is to install the package "discover" before "xserver-xfree86" in tasksel. I don't know why, but before installing "discover", I've seen some strange messages about the parallel port when I tried to install "xserver-xfree86", perhaps It can help you? I hope that my report will help you, Debian is my favorite distribution, keep on doing your excellent job and thanks a lot. Best Regards Stephane -- Stephane List http://slist.lilotux.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
