On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:40:15AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > The LCD could be more verbose, i.e. after "loading debian-installer" > > it could say "connect to the console now". > > I will consider doing this unless we get SSH support.
With ssh, it should display "now telnet to xx.xx.xx.xx", like the (inofficial?) woody installer (http://devel.alal.com/pipermail/cobalt-22/2002-July/000298.html) does. > > > - support installs via SSH, w/o serial console > > Definitely. And an option to set the serial baudrate (from CoLo > > onwards) to other speeds, i.e. 9600 like god intended. > > d-i and colo should just support any baud rate... however, I have no > idea how to change the Cobalt to something else. Do you know? I don't think you can change the baud rate used by the cobalt firmware -- my idea would have been to let colo and the following steps use a different speed than 115200, but I've got no idea how to tell colo about it. > > The partitioning tool doesn't set the swap partition type on the swap > > partition (it works, so it's a cosmetic error). > > I've seen this too recently. I've to check if this is still there. It does the right thing now. > > inittab apparently has entries for virtual terminals, which those > > messages: > > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > This should be gone now (in unstable). Yup, inittab looks good. installation report revealing a show-stopper: > Do you perhaps have time to test an installation from unstable? You > can use the initrd from > http://people.debian.org/~tbm/d-i/images/mipsel/daily/cobalt/netboot > (same kernel as before), and the install unstable rather than testing. OK; I re-fetched the whole setup from that URL into /nfsroot on bauer.tahina.priv.at (192.168.55.3), which is NFS-exported and has the TFTP server: # ls -lR .: total 4162 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 20 17:02 boot -> ./ -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 213 May 19 02:22 default.colo -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1448550 May 19 02:22 initrd.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2652775 May 19 02:23 vmlinux-2.4.25-r5k-cobalt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 44836 May 19 02:23 vmlinux.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 44836 May 19 02:23 vmlinux_RAQ.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 44836 May 19 02:23 vmlinux_raq-2800.gz dhcpd.conf (2.0pl5-11): host remailer { hardware ethernet 00:10:E0:00:30:F5; fixed-address remailer.tahina.priv.at; option routers 192.168.55.1; option root-path "/nfsroot"; next-server 192.168.55.3; filename "/boot/default.colo"; } Boots fine, menu comes up on LCD, select "TFTP", installer boots. Interesting points: - when the installer comes up on the serial console, the LCD still shows "loading debian-installer". - it asks for an IP address and other network config data -- it should just use the data it already has gotten via DHCP (ISTR the woody netinst does just that) - it mis-configures the IP address -- I entered "192.168.55.18", but it ifconfig's 192.168.55.255. Yes, I tried that twice to make sure I didn't mistype the address :-) ~ # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:E0:00:30:F5 inet addr:192.168.55.255 Bcast:192.168.55.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:55 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:22 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4221 (4.1 KiB) TX bytes:968 (968.0 B) Interrupt:4 I went thru the process of configuring debian mirror and proxy, "execute a shell" afterwards and ifconfig manually with the correct values; exit from the shell, choose "Choose a mirror...", continue. - The first time when asking for a debian mirror, it didn't ask if I wanted http or ftp; the second time around, it does. Also, it doesn't remember the country I selected first time around. - it does configure /etc/resolv.conf with the nameservers I entered, but it doesn't add "search domain.name" or "domain domain.name"; therefore I need to enter the FQDN of the proxy. - select "unstable" - in the "load installer components" screen, I selected "continue", all of the offered modules were unselected by default and left that way. - partitioning: the disk already had partitions and file systems from the last test; choose "partitioning method: erase entire disk". - partitioning scheme: "all files in one partition"; looks OK: | IDE1 master (hda) - 20.4 GB ST320423A # | | > #1 primary 98.6 MB B f ext2r0 /boot # | | > #2 primary 19.8 GB f ext3 / # | | > #5 logical 518.1 MB f swap swap # | [many hours later... boy, is that box sloooow!] - reboot works well, machine comes up fine. - in base-config, there's no visual indication of the active button -- both look exactely like this (i.e. no bold or inverse or stuff, cursor is somewhere else): . Is the hardware clock set to GMT? . . . . <Yes> <No> . - selected list items _are_ visible, in bold. - the timezone selector starts in the US submenu, instead of on the top level. - line editing characters (^U, ^A, ...) don't work in text entry fields. - base-config asks for the system hostname; it should take the value entered during the network configuration at the start of the install; apt-source configuration is the same, I already have entered the data before, it starts with default settings, except the proxy. - network config is broken, it doesn't even send out ARP packets when trying to apt-get update; I select "edit sources.list by hand" and leave it empty to get ahead. after logging in, neither eth0 nor lo are configured/up, /etc/network/interfaces has _only_ the following content: --- cut --- # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information. --- cut --- I'll be mighty busy the next two weeks, and maybe I'll not have a RAQ available afterwards... maybe I could do another test install next sunday. ciao, cm. -- Wildcard NS records, while theoretically possible, have sufficiently bizarre semantics that it is probably best to limit their use to torture-tests of DNS software. -- IAB Commentary: Architectural Concerns on the use of DNS Wildcards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
