Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 i386 netinstall iso, 20041010, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/pre-rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux gabbana 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20041010, ~20:00CDT Method: I burned the iso to CD and booted from it. No proxy. Machine: Dell 600SC Processor: 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Memory: 640MB, but it thinks it has 884MB(???) Root Device: 40GB IDE HD, hda Root Size/partition table: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 7.4G 74M 6.9G 2% / tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 118M 9.3M 103M 9% /boot /dev/hda9 6.7G 33M 6.4G 1% /home /dev/hda10 919M 8.1M 862M 1% /tmp /dev/hda5 5.5G 225M 5.0G 5% /usr /dev/hda6 7.4G 179M 6.8G 3% /var /dev/hda7 912M 14M 850M 2% /var/log /dev/hda8 7.4G 33M 7.0G 1% /var/www Output of lspci and lspci -n: lspci: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32) 0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge 0000:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 0000:00:0e.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0217 (rev a0) 0000:00:0f.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0) 0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB6 RAID/IDE Controller (rev a0) 0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks CSB6 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05) 0000:00:0f.3 ISA bridge: ServerWorks GCLE-2 Host Bridge lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0017 (rev 32) 0000:00:00.1 0600: 1166:0017 0000:00:02.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02) 0000:00:08.0 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27) 0000:00:0e.0 0101: 1166:0217 (rev a0) 0000:00:0f.0 0600: 1166:0203 (rev a0) 0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0213 (rev a0) 0000:00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0221 (rev 05) 0000:00:0f.3 0601: 1166:0227 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: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O/E] Comments/Problems: A little more about my installer choices: At the boot: prompt I chose gave the parameters "expert netcfg/disable_dhcp=true". At the "load installer components from CD" step, I enabled network-console and open-ssh-client-udeb so that I could have SSH access during the installer. Although I gave it the "netcfg/disable_dhcp=true" boot parameter, it still asked me whether I wanted to use DHCP or give parameters for a static configuration. I'm not sure whether that is intended behaviour or not, but I found it a little strange. It loaded the correct module for my network card (e1000). While looking for drivers, it gave me the somewhat scary message that it was not able to load some of the modules needed to power my hardware. I'm not really sure what that was about (I can't remeber which modules it listed, but it was IDE stuff and included ide-scsi and 3 or 4 others). AFAICT everything works just fine, though I haven't tested the floppy drive. The installer asked me about PCMCIA three different times, which was rather annoying, though completely harmless. After configuring networking, I was told that I could set a password and SSH into the install as the "installer" user, and I did. It was really nice to be able to do this. I suspect that this could have something to do with the weirdness that followed: at the end of the installer I was told that the base system had been installed, and to please remove the CDROM from the drive and reboot. I did so. When it came back up, it dropped me into a login prompt. Of course, at this point I hadn't been asked to set a root password or set up any user accounts, so I just logged in as root with no password. I expected it to drop me into base-config, but it didn't. It wasn't a huge issue because I just ran /usr/sbin/base-config myself, but that has the potential to be confusing for someone who might not be aware of the base-config command. Thanks to everyone for all the hard work! - Colleen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
