Package: installation-reports
Boot method: network
Image version: 10 Aug 2006, debian.org
Date: 10 Aug 2006
Machine: i386
Processor:
Memory:
Partitions:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
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: [ ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
The debian net-installer is highly unreliable in that it does neither
re-try to install packets it couldn't get from the net at first attempt
(e.g. after lost TCP connections) nor does it prompt the user what to do
in such case - it just ignores the packet. You end up with a system that
is half the packets missing - whithout ever having been notified about
this. I experienced that when my ISP had some problem and there was huge
packet loss on my connection. After reboot I ended up at the command
line login prompt, wondering whether the dist came without any desktop
environment. When the ISP's problem was fixed I tried "apt-get install
gnome", apt-get downloaded all new packages, and then hang at 99%.
Forver. Without CPU load. Reproducable. Did apt-get
clean/autoclean/update. Changed net source. No change.
Next day: re-format and re-install everything. This time everything
seemd to work fine, after reboot I got gnome by default. Now I
immediately wanted to install some other packages. BUT! Same problem
with apt-get on bigger packages! Small ones work fine, e.g. madplay. But
when I try "apt-get install xmms", it downloads first the new packages
and then just hangs at 99%, forever, without CPU load. Same problem with
lyx, which I tried next, and all other bigger packages. Now I don't know
if this is a problem with apt-get or again with the Debian Installer
having left out some packages???
Hope to get some feedback. Thanks in advance.
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