Package: installation-reports Severity: important
Dear Maintainer, -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha3/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-alpha3-amd64-i386-netinst.iso 2018-06-12 Date: August 2018 Machine: Supermicro R331.v5 Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [E] Configure network: [E] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [E] Clock/timezone setup: [E] User/password setup: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [E] Install base system: [E] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: Installer with 4.16.x kernel failed with network device detection, despite 4.9.0-n kernels of stretch having proper module, and in fact also the 4.17 kernel in buster. Installer reported that lvm was not available. Installer found disk, but after defining a partition size, would not allow any options beyond FAT16, FAT32, swap, or "do not use" ... even when the disk was pre-partitioned. No option to define a root partition, no option for ext3/4 xfs, btrfs, etc. Was not able to proceed with installation. Ended up skipping Buster, rolled back to: -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/48 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/48 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)