Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2004 Jun 10, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/tc1/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux saturn 2.6.6-1-686 #1 Wed May 12 14:57:57 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2004 Jun 10 20:00 UTC Method: Booting off the CDROM, expert26; Later using http://ftp.de.debian.org/ mirror; No proxy; (686-optimized kernel-image installed later) Machine: self-built x86 desktop Processor: Intel Pentium3 Celeron (Coppermine) 733MHz Memory: 128MB PCI100 SDRAM Root Device: IDE (UATA/100) Quantum Fireball Plus, 20GB Root Size/partition table: ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- ----------- 1 0x00 1 1 0 0x05 15 63 1023 63 40131441 2 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 5 0x00 2 1 0 0x83 15 63 251 63 253890 <== swap 6 0x80 1 1 252 0x83 15 63 387 63 137025 <== /boot, Ext3 7 0x00 1 1 388 0x83 15 63 1023 63 39740337 <== /, JFS Output of lspci and lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) 0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) 0000:02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:1130 (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:1131 (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:2440 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:244b (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 Class 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:2443 (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.4 Class 0c03: 8086:2444 (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0111 (rev b2) 0000:02:0a.0 Class 0401: 1274:5880 (rev 02) 0000:02:0b.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [E] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [E] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: Some modules couldn't be loaded; Creating the ~20GB JFS partition took more than 1hour, I suspect this is due to too extensive bad-block tests, Also tried creating an Ext3 partition, it only took a blink; First I tried the "businesscard" ISO, but the base system installation failed with error 1 (it didn't give any details, not even related errors on vc/3 and vc/4...), the "netinstall" ISO didn't show this problem; First I tried to only create a swap and a root partition, root type JFS, and the installer complained that it's likely that GRUB cannot boot off of a JFS partition, and indeed it had a fatal error installing GRUB, when I created a small Ext3 /boot partition GRUB installed fine, *BUT* I was previously using GRUB and JFS (my previous Debian install) and GRUB *CAN* reliably boot from JFS and install itself!; Also, the partitioner set the type of the swap partition to 0x83, whereas "linux swap" should be 0x82, but this is only a minor problem Sorry I had to forge my "From: " address because it seems the BTS is crawled by spambots and I got tremendous amouts of spam on my address I used for reporting bugs :-/ Anyway, thanks! The new Debian installer is great :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
