Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040526/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso
uname -a: Linux petebox 2.6.6-1-k7 #1 Wed May 12 18:19:40 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: May 26, 2004
Method: Burned ISO to CD, booted to CD
Machine: Homebrew Processor: Athlon 1600+ XP Memory: 512MB Root Device: IDE Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 193821 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 52833 26627706 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 52833 67050 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 67050 79242 6144862+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 79242 162547 41985846+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 79242 81282 1028128+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 81282 162547 40957686 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda6 on /home type ext3 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /windows type vfat (rw,quiet) /dev/hda3 on /xandros type ext3 (rw,noatime)
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1647 Northbridge [MAGiK 1 / MobileMAGiK 1] (rev b0)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 04)
0000:00:0b.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
0000:00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
0000:00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a3)
Comments/Problems:
This is my first time trying the debian-installer since beta 1 or 2. Things have come a long way, looking good. I wanted to send my feedback, hopefully it helps.
Everything worked well overall. I ran into some small problems with the partitioning so all my notes are about that section of the install.
First, I spent a few times going into the partion tool. Each time starting I got a long pause on the "partition scan". Checking with the other terminals I noticed it was scanning partitions on /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. This part of the scan took a long time. I would recommend not scanning anything under /dev/cdroms when looking for drive partitions.
The little symbols on the partition screen are a bit confusing. Read the help for them, but still never learned what the lightning bolt was for (boot?). A legend of the symbols and their meanings directly on the partition page would be helpful.
I have two existing EXT3 partitions that I wanted to mount under /home and /xandros. (you can see from my current partion mount list they are working.) But I could not get them mounted with the partioner tool. Each one gave me the following error, "This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet)." I had not asked for any partition resizing, but because of this error I wasn't allowed to mount either one. After the installation was complete I went and manually configured /etc/fstab. Everything worked fine then.
My last note here is just an observation. Since I was working with existing partitions a bit, I was wondering If there was any difference between the top level "Do not use this partition" option, or just setting the mount point to "no mount point". I ended up going with the "The do not use...", but was wondering if there was a difference.
Perhaps for streamlining the install options, if the user must manually select to mount and use a partition, there needs to be no option for setting no mount point?
Outside that, I had to hand edit XF86Config-4 and get the NVidia drivers running after install. Once that was done I had the most impressive and easiest gotten debian install ever. Nice!
Oh, and one last thing. When booting now I get an ugly message about problems with the partition tables not matching. This happens early in the boot and scrolls away faster than I can really read. The error doesn't show up in dmesg either. I haven't been getting this before, don't know if it's a problem I had previosly and only 2.6.x kernels detect. Or if the debian installer did something funny with the partitions?
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