Package: installation-reports Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-05 Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version: Downloaded http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso around 2 PM eastern (18:00 UTC) Tue 5 Aug 2003 uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.21-3-386 #3 Sun Jul 20 14:04:50 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue 5 Aug 2003, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC) to 9:00 PM EDT (1:00 UTC) Method: Burned full CD, booted directly from that. Attempted both networked and non-networked install, from debian.lcs.mit.edu and ftp.debian.org (see below). Direct, sane network connection. Machine: IBM Thinkpad T40 Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600 MHz Memory: 512 MB Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda4 Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1 1 2774 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) ;; Windows XP; 20 GB /dev/hda2 2775 9933 <extended> /dev/hda5 2775 5548 Linux ext3 ;; /; 20 GB /dev/hda6 5549 6935 Linux ext3 ;; /home; 10 GB /dev/hda7 6936 7074 Linux swap ;; 1 GB /dev/hda8 7075 9933 Win95 FAT32 (LBA) ;; FAT32 scratch; 20 GB /dev/hda4 9934 10337 "Magic IBM boot partition" Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3340 (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3341 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24cc (rev 01) 00:1f.a IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 24ca (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB SMBus (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02) 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1250 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 101e (rev 03) 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0012 (rev 01) Base System Installation Checklist: 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: [ ] (Did this outside of d-i) Create file systems: [ ] (Did this outside of d-i) Mount partitions: [E] Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: This is exactly the laptop described at http://www.w-m-p.com/linux-on-t40.html. Install on a brand new machine; the FAT32 XP partition will be converted to NTFS on its first boot. I did some pre-d-i maintenance using SystemRescueCd (http://systemrescuecd.sourceforge.net/). In particular, I repartitioned and created filesystems using the tools on this CD, rather than using d-i. Initial attempt was a network install, which threw me into the text-mode interface. Notes: -- Laptop needs e1000 driver, isn't on the menu. If I select "other", the prompt says "Please enter the full path to the module for your ethernet card", but just "e1000" is sufficient. -- I know which mirror I want (debian.lcs.mit.edu); "enter a custom mirror" should be an earlier option, rather than forcing me to page through the list of mirrors. -- Maybe add an option for "do you want extra d-i modules"? It should be clearer when you need any of these. -- devfs partition names in fdisk might be unfamiliar to users, and they're long. I don't know if there's a good way around this beyond not using devfs. -- "Configure and Mount Partitions" option can't find my partitioned filesystems, even though I can successfully mount them from the Alt-F2 shell prompt. No interesting log output, just "Menu item 'partconf' selected", "Configuring 'partconf' failed with error code 256". I wasn't able to debug this further, mostly because I couldn't find what cause partconf to run. (A little familiarity with how d-i runs might have helped; it doesn't help that all of the maintainer scripts and so on are binaries, but this is an installer, not a live system.) I proceeded by using the "mount/unmount a partition (OLD)" option. -- "Install the base system" fails, for both sarge and sid on debian.lcs.mit.edu, and for sid on ftp.debian.org, apparently because files are missing from the pool. I assume this is an artifact of debian.lcs.mit.edu having odd policies and unstable being unstable (so yesterday's downloaded files list doesn't help today). Downloading sarge files from ftp.debian.org loses because testing is inconsistent (apt depends on libgcc1 and libstdc++5 newer than what's in testing). I can 'chroot /target' and run 'apt-get --help', so I can't be too hosed; blindly plowing on. :-) But beyond this point, nothing works, because 'dpkg --configure --pending' always blows out. Starting over with not-net-install: -- "Error running kbd-chooser: An error or warning message was logged while running kbd-chooser: Segmentation fault kbd-chooser's postinst exited with status 35584" -- The network driver autodetect does work this time. -- Actual installation fails the same way. -- Failure to 'modprobe floppy' is a dialog-warning error, but my laptop legitimately doesn't have a floppy drive. -- "Execute a shell" option from the menu hangs. -- "Install a kernel" tries to install the base system, too, which might be undesirable. -- For that matter, there's no kernel-image-*.deb on the CD at all. Resolution: at this point I gave up, mounted /target/proc, ran 'chroot /target', edited /etc/apt/sources.list, and installed the world using APT, with some minor frobbing using the SystemRescueCd to get GRUB installed. This means that I've never seen the Debian "installer postinst" on this machine. But it does seem to *work*, modulo being fairly new hardware and a new installation with no software. (The rest of this isn't meaningful, since I'm running reportbug from my desktop machine:) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux watertown 2.4.20-watertown #1 Mon Apr 21 09:28:00 EDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
