Bug#373119: installation-report: mips weekly netboot.img 2006-06-11
Package: installation-reports installation-report: mips weekly netboot.img 2006-06-11 I snatched an old SGI O2 off the garbage, what better use is there than trying a new netboot image? Boot method: network boot: bootp(): append=debconf/priority=low Image version: Boot image from 2006-06-11 http://people.debian.org/~ths/d-i/mips/images/daily 7e095fb7af92c2af8c512e81a9c3d2f6 debian-mips-netboot-boot.img Date: 2006-06-12 Machine:SGI O2 Processor: metis:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : SGI O2 processor : 0 cpu model : R5000 V2.1 FPU V1.0 BogoMIPS: 198.65 Memory: 256 MiB Partitions: metis:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ext2 3830348269308 3366468 8% / tmpfstmpfs 126612 0126612 0% /dev/shm tmpfstmpfs 1024048 10192 1% /dev metis:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 132 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8184 * 512 bytes - partitions - Pt#Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda1 boot 2 952 7782984 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sda2 swap 953 1016523776 82 Linux swap 9: /dev/sda3 0 1 16368 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda4 0 1016 8323128 6 SGI volume - Bootinfo - Bootfile: /unix - Directory Entries - 0: arcbootsector4 size 70794 Output of lspci and lspci -n: metis:~# lspci 00:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U 00:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U metis:~# lspci -n 00:01.0 0100: 9004:8078 00:02.0 0100: 9004:8078 metis:~# lsscsi [0:0:1:0]diskHP 4.26GB A 80-880R 880R /dev/sda [0:0:4:0]cd/dvd TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5701TA 0167 /dev/scd0 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] dhcp Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] selected unstable 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] Comments/Problems: Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install. Network: It turned out after lengthy trying and wondering that the O2 needs some handcrafted network settings as described for booting Indys. On the system running the tftp daemon limit the ethernet source port to numbers below 32k: echo 2048 32767 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc And make sure your fire_wall setting are nice :-) And after that make sure you use a http-proxy to get low source ports for that, too (used tinyproxy_1.6.3-2). Partition Harddisk: The disk did have a foreign disklabel, so the partitioner offered expert menu (x) to create one (g) and go back to main (r). Very nice! Mount partitions: Well, I got fancy and chose xfs, but booting from xfs seems to be impossible :-( If that is the case, then a check and message would sure help. So I took ext2 on the second attempt. Select and Install Software: There used to be a Select packages manually or something such in expert mode. It seems to have vanished. :-( BootLoader: The message detailing how to reboot is just nice. Saves me a lot of head scratching! Kudos! metis:~# uname -a Linux metis 2.6.16-2-r5k-ip32 #1 Tue May 23 16:26:44 BST 2006 mips64 GNU/Linux Thanks for making this possible! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
installation-report: powerpc-beta4 successful (G3 blue+white)
Package: installation-reports Hello, this my first installation on powerpc :-) INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: from http://www.uk.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ following the beta4 link http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/beta4/sarge-p owerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux ganymed 2.4.25-powerpc #1 mer avr 14 15:38:38 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: Fri May 21 16:24:38 CEST 2004 Method: booting off CDrom (holding 'c' key) boot: expert Machine: Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32) Apple G3 (blue+white? fancy plastic case with 4 handles --- no expert :) Processor: processor : 0 cpu : 7400, altivec supported temperature : 11-13 C (uncalibrated) clock : 400MHz revision: 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips: 796.26 machine : PowerMac3,1 motherboard : PowerMac3,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh board revision : 0001 detected as : 65 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) pmac flags : 0004 L2 cache: 1024K unified memory : 128MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Memory: 128 MB Root Device: /dev/hda (ide) Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where. /dev/hda #type name length base( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootb lock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 250001 @ 1664(122.1M) Linux swap /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 3906251 @ 251665 ( 1.9G) Linux native /dev/hda5 Apple_Free Extra 15908335 @ 4157916 ( 7.6G) Free space / on /dev/hda4 Output of lspci and lspci -n: pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices :00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS :10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI :10:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154 (rev 05 ) :11:03.0 Parallel controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd: Unknown device 7268 (rev 01) :11:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02) :11:08.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB :11:09.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB :11:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Con troller :21:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI :21:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM ) (rev 01) pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices :00:0b.0 Class 0600: 106b:0020 :00:10.0 Class 0300: 1002:5046 :10:0b.0 Class 0600: 106b:001f :10:0d.0 Class 0604: 1011:0026 (rev 05) :11:03.0 Class 0701: 1409:7268 (rev 01) :11:07.0 Class ff00: 106b:0022 (rev 02) :11:08.0 Class 0c03: 106b:0019 :11:09.0 Class 0c03: 106b:0019 :11:0a.0 Class 0c00: 104c:8019 :21:0b.0 Class 0600: 106b:001e :21:0f.0 Class 0200: 106b:0021 (rev 01) 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:[E] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: (note: I started out with daily build of 20040520, but that has a completely broken partman ... ) It went quite smooth. 1. partman complained, that there is no valid NewWorld bootblock, allthough I created part2 of 800k with the correct names. But at least it let me continue. 2. install yaboot failed, complaining there is no valid boot block. Poking around I found that it expects a 'hfs' formatted boot block. And after some investigation I found that the following would get it done (from vc/2): # chroot /target sh # mount -t proc proc /proc # mkofboot # umount /proc # exit after that, the bootblock is fine and the installer is happy. so am I :-) Great toy, this new debian installer! Thanks! Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installations-Problem: nano_1.0.6-3_i386.deb was corrupt
Hello, are you sure you sent your message to the correct list? E.Wälde Stephanie Hönes writes: Hallo, ich habe gerade im Forum den Beitrag zu dem Installations-Problem mit dem Paket nano gelesen. Ich habe genau dieses Problem, wie in dem Beitrag beschrieben. Sobald ich die Debian-Basis-Paket Installation beginne, kommt diese Meldung: ... nano_1.0.6-3_i386.deb was corrupt. Ich habe die CD's direkt von der Firma ISO4LINUX bestellt und sogar auch schon eine Ersatz-CD bekommen, mit der habe ich aber leider genau das gleiche Problem. Nun habe ich mir inzwischen von der Debian-Site das NON_US und inzwischen auch das normale ISO gezogen, die MD5-Prüfsumme stimmt bei beiden mit der auf dem Server überein. Ich habe auch schon mehrere unterschiedliche CD-Laufwerke eingebaut, daran liegt es also auch nicht. Das System ist ein AMD-K6/2 mit 500 Mhz und 128 MB-RAM, 13 GB Festplatte, einem IDE-CD-ROM Laufwerk, Floppy und mit einer Netzwerk-Karte ausgestattet. Vielleicht kann mir jemand weiterhelfen ?? Liebe Grüße Steffi !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 META content=MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400 name=GENERATOR/HEAD BODY DIV DIV align=left DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=187415809-19032004Hallo,/SPAN/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=187415809-19032004/SPAN/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=187415809-19032004ich habe gerade im Forum dSPAN class=859115712-19032004en /SPANBeitragnbsp;SPAN class=859115712-19032004zu dem Installations-Problem mit dem Paket nano /SPANgelesen. Ich habe genau dieses Problem, wie in dem Beitrag beschrieben. Sobald ich die Debian-Basis-Paket Installation beginne, kommt diese Meldung: FONT size=3... /FONTnano_1.0.6-3_i386.deb was corrupt. Ich habe die CD's direkt von der Firma ISO4LINUX bestellt und sogar auch schon eine Ersatz-CD bekommen, mit der habe ich aber leider genau das gleiche Problem. Nun habe ich mir inzwischen von der Debian-Site das NON_US und inzwischen auSPAN class=859115712-19032004ch/SPAN das normale ISO gezogen,nbsp;die FONT face=Times New RomanFONT size=3MD5-Prüfsumme stimmSPAN class=859115712-19032004t/SPAN bei beidennbsp;mit der auf dem Server überein.SPAN class=859115712-19032004 Ich habe auch schon mehrere unterschiedliche CD-Laufwerke eingebaut, daran liegt es also auch nicht. Das System ist ein AMD-K6/2 mit 500 Mhz und 128 MB-RAM, 13 GB Festplatte, einem IDE-CD-ROM Laufwerk, Floppynbsp;undnbsp; mit einer Netzwerk-Karte ausgestattet./SPAN/FONT/FONT/SPAN/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=187415809-19032004FONT face=Times New RomanFONT size=3SPAN class=859115712-19032004/SPAN/FONT/FONT/SPAN/FONTnbsp;/DIV DIVSPAN class=187415809-19032004SPAN class=859115712-19032004FONT face=Arial size=2Vielleicht kann mir jemand weiterhelfen ??/FONT/SPAN/SPAN/DIV DIVSPAN class=187415809-19032004SPAN class=859115712-19032004FONT face=Arial size=2/FONT/SPAN/SPANnbsp;/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=187415809-19032004Liebe Grüße Steffi/SPAN/FONT/DIV DIVFONT face=Arial size=2SPAN class=187415809-19032004/SPAN/FONTnbsp;/DIV/DIV/DIV/BODY/HTML
Re: [LOGO] Debian boot logo informal poll
Quite clearly: [X] Mark Riedesel (Klowner) [ ] Matthew A. Nicholson [ ] Volkan YAZICI [ ] Alessandro Polverini and Andrea Mottola (first logo) [ ] Alessandro Polverini and Andrea Mottola (second logo) [ ] Mark Selby [ ] No boot logo [ ] Further discussion Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#237534: inst report: lots of partman and LVM issues
Hello, Christian Perrier writes: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Not sure. Maybe Partition disks and Partition disks (cfdisk) since cfdisk might be a term people understand... but that's not ideal either. I'm sorry I don't have a good solution either. :/ cfdisk is not used on all architectures. There's also the queston of what to call partconf. In another thread, I suggested Partition disks (expert) for partconf and Partition disks alone for partman. I would strongly recommend to use the real names somewhere in the description. Otherwise it is never clear, which one of the several (including cfdisk and whatnot) partitioners was used in a certain case. eg. Partition disks, recommended tool (partman) Partition disks (partconf) Partition disks (cfdisk) so I would support Joey's idea, even if he doesn't seem to like it :-) I'm not so clear about what to show when (priority, arch), because all I know is i386 Somewhat off-topic, but also a description thing: would it seem reasonable to add another boot method (don't know a better term) to d-i like so NameSetting Description linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=highminimum questions asked (recommended) custom DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium more options on bootloader, networking, file systems expert DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low full control especially on hw and kernel modules Excuse: I see that often we have to tell folks use: DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, which is awkward to type on a foreign keyboard anyway. We could, if enough like it, add Name and Description above the first prompt. Maybe that lead to lesser people pressing 'F1' to read the help, I don't know. That way, all partman-supported archs will have a quite clear choice and non partman supported archs will only have expert which is not really a problem as these architectures are indeed often used by experts..:-) Moreover, the choice will only be shown at medium priority which is already a choice for experts This terminology is the one I've already seen in RedHat 8 as far as I remember. Comments? Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
partman xfs: bad entry in /etc/fstab
Hello, I did a vmware install using http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040309/sarge-i386-netinst.iso I did a typo in the boot line and ended in the default install :-) Thus I got to use the new partitioner partman. I was impressed to see a message, that xfs for /boot is not such a good idea, so I went back to repartition ... very impressive. In general I didn't like the many menus, but I can see that the logic behind it is much more capable. So I'll get used to it, I guess. So I chose /dev/discs/disc0/part1 = 128 MB swap /dev/discs/disc0/part2 = 32 MB ext3 /boot /dev/discs/disc0/part1 = 800 MB xfs / The reboot failed into some strange state. I was able to get in adding init=/bin/bash to the boot options. / was mounted readonly. I found that /etc/fstab was the source of the problem /dev/sda3 / xfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 --^ instead of ignoring, mount (of xfs) will fail with this option. I managed to remount mount -o remount,rw -t xfs /dev/sda3 / and change the file. If someone will tell me, which package exactly this should go, I'll resend as a bug report. The rest of the install was a piece of cake! Thanks! Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot stopped - attempt to access beyond end of device - sarge 20040306
Hi,
Donald Duck writes:
Wanted to try Sarge. Got Official jigdo files for the testing distribution
on CD.
Downloaded only 'Debian GNU/Linux testing Sarge - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20040306)'.
While booting the CD (mode linux or expert, no difference):
...
loading install/cdrom.gz
... {about 1s later}
01:00: rw=0, want 8203, limit=8192
---
The ram disk image is currently too big. Add
ramdisk_size=10240
or similar to your entry at the boot prompt.
Erich
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Re: RAID1 netinst CD
Hello, W. Borgert writes: That message was meant for debian-boot, but didn't appear there, so I send it directly to you. Cheers! On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:47:37PM +, W. Borgert wrote: Hello Paul and all, today I tried your iso image, but had not the time to complete the installation - tomorrow I will do this. Three issues until here: 1. I'm a RAID/MD newbie: Is there a howto or manual about what every single step I have to take to realise RAID1 using the installer? If you are new to md/raid, then I would recommend to play with it on an up and running system first. Create 2 partitions same size on different disks, a few 100 MB are perfectly sufficient. Then install mdadm and read the docs. Search on debian-user, maybe. briefly: - mark the partitions as 'fd' Linux raid autodetection - create a raid device /dev/md0 with mdadm --create (or /dev/md/0 if you have mounted devfs) - create a filesystem on that device like mkfs.xfs /dev/md0 - mount the new fs monitor progress with cat /proc/mdstat That should get you going. Once you grok that, its much simpler to deal with it, while on limited resources. 2. I'm missing XFS in the file system list. Is it really not there or do I have to enable this somehow? well, it's not yet in the menu, but it seems that the sw parts are available. So try to do it on the shell --- give the configurator something to do, however, otherwise it will believe that it has not successfully created and mounted file systems. 3. It seems that the installer uses Linux 2.4. Any chance to use and install 2.6? not yet integrated. But not a problem to boot the 2.4.24 kernel and then upgrade after base system has been installed properly. Thanks for your work, I really hope it makes it soon into d-i. Cheers, -- W. Borgert [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://people.debian.org/~debacle/ Also see my report on debian-boot http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200403/msg00652.html Good luck. I copied debian-boot CC. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID1 netinst CD
Hi, W. Borgert writes: Hello, today I sat down together with an experienced Linux/UNIX admin and we went through the complete installation with RAID1. Unfortunately, we didn't succeed. We have two identical HDs and created four partitions on each in an identical layout. We sat all(!) partitions to type 'FD'. We created the MDs and created three ext3 and one swap (all on top of MD). We would like to have XFS, but it was not in the menu, but that't not a big issue. Problems: 1. We were not able to create all MDs from the menu. At the beginning, the first partition of the first SCSI disk did not appear in the d-i menu. We created all with mdadm. 2. Deleting MDs from d-i didn't work. The MDs always showed up again and again! yapp, confirmed: menu doesn't, shell does (always?) work Another option is to zero out the superblocks, or at least the beginning of a partition with something along the lines of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaXX bs=1024 count=64 do not take this command lightly. I did use it intentionally to zero out the complete disks with of=/dev/sda and no count ... it will run until no space left on device. 3. The installation of the kernel failed completely with sth. like /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root device. well, this is a completely different game. I have not yet gotten through to this point. There was an interesting thread on debian-user lately ... //me searching, here we go: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200402/msg05104.html and references therein. As a possible workaround: install a small / partition elsewhere (no raid), reserve space for the read / partition on raid. Install. Now once that configuration is up, mount the raid /-partition on /new-root, say, copy / over to /new-root (cp -a), chroot /new-root, mount /proc and stuff in there. Now try to install a new kernel and see, how that goes in the chroot-ed environment. I have tried this, but not really come to a conclusion, of whether this works, should work or cannot work. Consider this a timeconsuming experiment. We tried to disable the first MD (not possible from the menu, but mdadm worked), and did / with ext3 and without RAID1, but error (3.) still appeared. What's wrong with my setup? Thanks in advance for any help! Cheers, WB You asked: will this be in d-i at some point. The answer is: if someone creates the neccessary patches. But in more detail: - I think its safe to say, it will not be in beta3. - Keep in mind, that Pauls effort is not yet an official thing. - so IMHO it will be a while. I know that others are out there waiting for exactly this: have raid, lvm, devfs, xfs available immediately after installation. so, if we help it in: yes. Not to forget: Thank you, Paul! and whatever testing I can do to help, I'm willing to switch on my noise machine any other time ... :-) (OT: in case you have doubts about the unbelievable noise of a Seagate Barracuda --- get yourself some :) Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
raid1 installation part. successful, was: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Hello,
I put together a noisy config with 2 scsi disks on a dumb scsi controller
on an otherwise homebrew i386 system.
I went through the install with the image provided by
Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
available at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~pg/debian/netinst-raid1.iso
I managed to set up a /target tree on lvm on raid1 on scsi, but base
install failed (could not download coreutils), and no smoke test has taken
place. See below for details.
To summarize: I found all the neccessary tools! Good work! Thank you.
It needs a bit of polishing here and there, but AFAICS nothing really
difficult.
Cheers,
Erich
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
uname -a:
Date:
Method:
booting from CDROM
snip/
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: [O]
configure MD[E]
configure LVM [E}
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system:[E]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
boot: linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
* Choose Language (US English)
* Choose Country (Germany)
* Select a Keyboard Layout (PS/2, US_english)
* Detect and mount CD-ROM
* Load installer components
. lvmcfg, nobootloader
1. I did expect sw-raid or md to show up here, but it didn't
* Detect network hardware
* Configure the network (dhcp)
* Detect hardware (disks: 2 scsi, 1 ide, cdrom ide)
* Partition a hard drive
ide0 part1 30 MB /boot
scsi0 part1 1 GB +
scsi1 part1 1 GB == /dev/md/0
scsi0 part2 1 GB +
scsi1 part2 1 GB == /dev/md/1
* configure md
2. configure md is listed _after_ configure lvm, where I would expect
it the other way round. Not a big deal.
3. of course I forgot to mark partition type 'fd' and hat to go back.
Precise error message made that easy, though. :-)
4. it took several attempts until I found that mdadm (cat /proc/mdstat)
had some old junk information (2 broken md devs), which would prevent
the new partitions from showing up in the menus.
# mdadm --stop /dev/md/0
# mdadm --stop /dev/md/1
fixed that.
Of course I zeroed out the drives first and rebooted several times
after changes in the partition tables. But heck.
5. the first raid device was created and started to sync. Then I wanted
to create the second device. At first it seemed that it would block on
the sync to finish (I used to raidtools2, rather). But that proved
wrong. I could kill the mdadm --create ... process and restart.
Again it did block (blue screen, nothing moving). So I killed it again
and issued the command on the shell:
# mdadm --create /dev/md/1 --force -l 1 -n 2 -x 0
/dev/scsi/...target{0,1}.../part2
which did ask me, whether I wanted to proceed, yes or no. So maybe it
needs a do-it-and-don't-bother-me switch set?
At least I got 2 raid1 devices, synced and up, both consisting of 2
partitions on the scsi disks.
* configure lvm
6. lvmcfg complained, that it would not find any usable partitions. Which
is true, kind of, since none where marked 'LVM'. However, it's wrong,
kinf of, too, since it doesn't consult /dev/md devices, it seems.
# pvcreate -ff /dev/md/0
# pvcreate -ff /dev/md/1
Unfortunately, no change (I reselected configure lvm from the menu).
So I went ahead to do it on the shell
# vgcreate vg00 /dev/md/0
# vgextend vg00 /dev/md/1
which worked fine.
7. creating LVOLs worked as expected
/dev/vg00/lvol1 128 MB /
/dev/vg00/lvol2 256 MB /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol3 256 MB /var
/dev/vg00/lvol4 256 MB /tmp
/dev/vg00/lvol5 256 MB /home
* Configure and mount partitions
8. in addition I mounted /dev/hda1 to /boot (board cannot boot from scsi)
* Install the base system
fails consistently cannot download coreutils. Did delete the file in
/target/var/cache/apt/archives, but no change. But I believe this is a
problem with my CDRom not liking CD-RW's rather than anything else.
No messages on vc/3 or vc/4, though.
so giving at this point.
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Re: Install fails: can't find kernel module for via-rhine Ethernet
Hello Frans, looks like you have chosen the adventureous path :-) Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After an installation-report for a mostly successful install using Beta-2, I received a suggestion from Erich Waelde to try: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/current/ (I downloaded today's build: Mar. 2 2004) However, this fails during hardware detect. It looks like my Ethernet card is recognized correctly, but the installer can't load the kernel module. I noticed that on the cdrom the contents of the /install directory have been reorganized when compared to Beta-2: some .img files moved to subdir floppy. Could this be the cause of the problem. Sounds to me as you did use expert boot option ... If this is correct, then in the first round of hardware detection, I have seen ide-disk fail to load --- this is because it is loaded already, but the red error screen sure looks bad. And consequently a message is displayed about missing modules for your hardware. If this is still what you see, then a.) change to vc/2 by pressing 'Ctrl-Alt-F2' hit 'Enter' to get a root shell type 'lsmod' at the prompt. Check that your modules are there. -- if not, try to load them with modprobe -v name_of_module if the output indicates errors, be sure to note the exact message. b.) return to vc/1 by pressing 'Ctrl-alt-F1' be brave and hit 'Enter' to acknowledge the error message. I have not seen a problem, but the error message is showing up with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low (same as expert) or DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium If what I describe does not apply to your case, then please send more details, like exact error messages, also found on vc/3 and vc/4, in /target/var/log if they occur in a later stage. Also mention the exact image location and file date, along with any boot parameters you chose. Be sure to check out the help available with 'F1' at the boot prompt. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nic-modules mismatch, was: Install fails: can't find kernel module for via-rhine Ethernet
Hello, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what happens during an Expert install: - Choose language, Choose country, Select keyboard layout: OK - Detect and mount CD-ROM . via-rhine is shown in list of modules to load (with [*] in front) . Message: unable to load some modules; not available (use driver floppy) missing modules: via-rhine at this point it's ok, no drivers available yet. . Message: CD-ROM detected - Load installation components from CD - Detect Network hardware . Message: unable to load some modules; not available (use driver floppy) missing modules: via-rhine, ide-scsi I retraced these steps with images from 1. sid (unstable) http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040301/sarge-i386-netinst.iso the module is clearly available as /lib/modules/2.4.24-1-386/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o fails to load, of course, because I have different hw. insmod: init_module: via-rhine: No such device modprobe: failed to load module via-rhine ok. 2. sarge (testing) http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20030302/sarge-i386-netinst.iso after detecting network hw it says: Unable to laod some modules ... 8139too vc/2: there is no /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-386/kernel/drivers/net directory. Thus modprobe -v 8139too fails with no module by that name found So the question is, whether the correct udeb is missing altogether or failed to install. this shows up in /var/log/syslog as user.notice hw-detect: Detecting hardware... user.notice hw-detect: Loding modules... user.notice hw-detect: Detected module '8139too' for Realtek ... user.notice hw-detect: Trying to load module '8139too' user.notice hw-detect: Missing module '8139too'. grep 'DEBUG: install nic-' /var/log/syslog returns nothing. find /cdrom/pool/main -name nic-\* finds /cdrom/pool/main/l/linux-kernel-di/nic-...-2.4.22-...udeb but uname -a says Linux (none) 2.4.25-1-386 ... so the available ones do not match the kernel version, it seems to me. Hope this helps. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Base system installation error
Hello, forgive me should I ignore important details that were mentioned on the thread before. Johannes Behr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really frustrating. I must have a running system on the notebook for a presentation next week. I thought I could use reinstall my debian (had some trouble with the nvidia-driver) to get a clean system and now I really don't know how to get the system up and running again. If you are so short on time, then maybe other routes get you to ``a running system'' a. have you considered trying Knoppix? (www.knoppix.org) Its Debian based, can be installed to harddrive and could possibly get you going. b. have you considered installing a woody minimal system, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade? Allthough the word `nvidia' makes this kind of unlikely c. have you considered trying out any other distro you happen to get your fingers on? I'm *not* saying: forget Debian. I *am* saying: given the timeframe, would ``any'' running distro do fine for you? I'm ignoring any details here of what could work, because I don't know. But you can always leave some space on the disk for Debian to come :-) just my 2 cent, your mileage may vary. You say ``notebook'' and just in case you don't know these: http://tuxmobil.de http://tuxmobil.com http://linux-laptop.net Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Hello, Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) However, I lack public ftp space as well. So I repost the question: Is there a place, where this image can be made available? Thanks, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#235717: Installation report (i386 - Beta 2)
Hello, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian-installer-version: Beta 2 (i386 100MB CD image) uname -a: Linux sauron 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Feb 29 15:30 As with most sw development things have moved on. If you feel adventureous enough to give it another try, I suggest that you use newer images available at: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/current/ (to become the next beta, if I remember correctly) or http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/ (the bleeding edge) beta 3 should become available within the next two or three weeks. If you boot linux (or hit enter at the boot prompt) you will get an as much automagick as possible installation. If you boot expert, you will get the menu and *many* more questions. This is the full control mode. For something in between including the menu, you can try linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium which is my favourite as well. Be sure to check out the help available with 'F1' (and other F-keys) at the boot prompt. Also note that you can search the list archive at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support
Finn-Arne Johansen writes: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:45:13AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: Hello, Paul Fleischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, It looks like I have finally made a working modified version of the NetInst CD Image with RAID1 support. This should make it a bit easier for people to test it. I would very much like to test this. This is my missing bit. However, I do not have a proper place to put the cd image. Suggestions are welcome :-) However, I lack public ftp space as well. So I repost the question: Is there a place, where this image can be made available? I can provide space for http (i dont run a ftp) how big is the iso ? just guessing from the name NetInst CD it could be 100 MB, if it is a complete image. Paul? Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#234950: discover-data-udeb: pcmcia chip RL5c476 II should load yenta_socket module
Package: discover-data-udeb Severity: normal Tags: sid Petter Reinholdtsen writes: [Erich Waelde] One minor thing for discover: System is a Asus M2400N noteboot with intel centrino chips (firmware 0206) tries to load i82365 module, which fails. yenta_socket loads successfully. I believe this is the problematic entry: 01:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a9) 01:03.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a9) [...] 01:03.0 Class 0607: 1180:0476 (rev a9) 01:03.1 Class 0607: 1180:0476 (rev a9) In my copy of discover-data, it is listed with i82365 as the correct module: 11800476 bridge i82365 RL5c476 II It should be changed to yenta_socket in discover-data. Report a bug against the discover-data-udeb package. :) Sincerely, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install ok (image sid 20040225) and discover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Todays image is ok with the reported netcfg problem. My second sight of the boot splash screen --- just lovely! I'm quite impressed about the new language chooser! And yes, my timezone was suggested correctly! Not the mirror site, though. language: english US country: Germany keyboard: german (no deadkeys) (defaulted to American English, which should be ok, AFAICT) ... suggested US mirror (but I'm not certain, whether this is supposed to work differently) and yes nobootloader worked as expected! Thanks! Adding acpi=on hangs the kernel (2.4.24-1-386) at reboot, despite the kernel config saying all the ACPI stuff is enabled. The screen just stays blank, no disk activity, and I need to power down (3 secs on power switch). Is there anything I should dig out using boot-options or some such ? One minor thing for discover: System is a Asus M2400N noteboot with intel centrino chips (firmware 0206) tries to load i82365 module, which fails. yenta_socket loads successfully. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02) 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3584 (rev 02) 00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3585 (rev 02) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) 01:03.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a9) 01:03.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev a9) 01:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 01) 01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) 00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:3580 (rev 02) 00:00.1 Class 0880: 8086:3584 (rev 02) 00:00.3 Class 0880: 8086:3585 (rev 02) 00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:3582 (rev 02) 00:02.1 Class 0380: 8086:3582 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 03) 00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 83) 00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 03) 00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 03) 00:1f.5 Class 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 03) 00:1f.6 Class 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 03) 01:03.0 Class 0607: 1180:0476 (rev a9) 01:03.1 Class 0607: 1180:0476 (rev a9) 01:03.2 Class 0c00: 1180:0552 (rev 01) 01:04.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) 01:05.0 Class 0280: 8086:1043 (rev 04) Cheers, Erich GPG key ID: 8FC7D9AF fingerprint: F49C 1BA5 251E 66C2 58C0 AD5D 584A 7B32 8FC7 D9AF - -- The purpose of computing is insight --- not numbers. Richard Hamming 1962 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQFAPgXjWEp7Mo/H2a8RAhqRAJ0bTXrze93L/N3hfZ3QqIo9S57rCQCg0vbo 6mAsvZJ+ieVASDCywQuq/Yw= =S5Kh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netcfg broken? (20040224 image)
Hello, yesterday I managed to install sarge with the image gluck.d.o/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/20040223/sarge-i386-netinst.iso i choose nobootloader, which failed. Today I read that a newer version on nobootloader was uploaded :-) however, Configure the network returns without doing anything. I searched through the logs, but nothing conclusive. I saw broken dependency nessages pointing to libc, however, that may be true in this early stage, I cannot tell. Anyone else seen this? Can I get better information on what failed? Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#229328: lvmcfg not installing lvm10 et al
Hi Andrew, Apart from lvmcfg not installing lvm-common + lvm10 or similar, there is one more thing to check for: If a standard 2.4 or 2.6 Debian Kernel is installed/used (which is what d-i does), it will have CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y or in other words: devfs support built in. In that case lvm expects devfs being mounted (!) on /dev (!!). See below. This means that devfs must be installed as well AND activated (/etc/default/devfs) --- the default is MOUNT=no. I stumbled into this again today ... Hope this helps. Erich -- from installing lvm10 seperately, debconf screen: lqqqu [!!] LVM tk x x x LVM interaction with devfsx x x x LVM does work with Linux 2.4 kernels that have devfs in them, however x x there are some important things you need to know. x x x x if devfs is compiled into the kernel then it MUST be mounted on /dev x x Otherwise LVM will not be able to locate your Physical Volumes. You must x x also use the full devfs device names in LVM commands rather than the x x shortened devfsd names. x x x x This is particularly important because the default Debian 2.4 Linux x x kernels are built in this way. So, if you plan to stick with a defaultx x kernel and want to use lvm you should also install the devfsd package.x x x x Ok x x x mqqqj cat /etc/default/devfsd # mount point for devfs MOUNTPOINT=/dev # mount on boot? MOUNT=yes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#230674: Multiple problems, installer fails
Hi, Thanasis Chrysos writes: Package: installation Version: sarge-i386 built 2004-01-31 * The system fails to install. Examining the debootstrap.log file shows: ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists This happens when you install base-system a second time without reformatting the partition. Known, somewhat infamous bug. * I removed awk and tried again, and this time the error is bootstrap: 1: sleep: not found This error message is a consequence of an error that happened before. Most probably like so: libgnutls7 depends on libopencdk8; however: Package libopencdk8 is not installed. Errors were encountered while processing: libgnutls7 exim4-daemon-light mailx at exim4 /usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1: sleep: not found * I copied sleep from /target/bin to /bin, and still have an error: libc6 is not installed, and the final message is cannot load shared lib librt.so.1: not found. cp /target/bin/sleep /bin cp /target/lib/librt* /lib This has fixed it for me, however, the sleep is usually not the problem. Please retry with erased / partition. The error mentioned above would show on console 3 or 4 (Alt-F3 or Alt-F4) or in /target/var/log/debootstrap.* if I remember correctly. Please specify the exact image and download location, so we can check this out. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#230502: debian-installer wiped out my MBR
Hello, Marc Herbert writes: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Marc Herbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Generally speaking, I find the new design of the installer very nice: I like the idea of being able to go back and forth between clever and manual modes. But please, just ask confirmation (just provide a back button) before doing anything clever, at the very least in the MBR case. Just saw your IRC exchanges with joeyh about this. Can you indicate which boot loader was involved? As if I had time to choose one! The default one of course: GRUB. By the way, it's kinda funny to provide two boot loaders when you just can't choose. snip I know, it won't make you feel better. There was some discussion about this starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/msg01000.html where I have tried to voice the same concern. Kind of. There was no conclusion in the mail exchange IIRC. IMHO the MBR is a ``sacred site''. I strongly agree with your opinion not to touch it unless explicitly permitted. I would like to see this fixed, too. I wouldn't even know how to fix a broken windows MBR. Cheers, Erich (probably any of lilo and grub installers exhibit the same problem) That's why I filed this bug above, to debian-installer. I think it's not safe for debian-installer to call whatever-MBR-spoiler without any user interaction, and then cross fingers and trust that everything will be fine below. Two warnings and user confirmations are obviously safer than none. I heard that one of the design goal of the new installer is be more newbie-friendly. So far, so good. But IMHO, what is not newbie-friendly is just asking complex technical questions that can be solved automagically 95% of the time. I think that asking: Final step, I will change the way your machine is booting, are you sure you want to do that ? _is_ newbie-friendly, every user can understand that, and everyone still has the chance to press the back button. What is not newbie-friendly is just questions that stick you because you do not know the answer (and where the installer can make a good guess of course). Every newbie can choose between yes and back. Sometimes without even understanding the consequences, but then there is no solution at all. You cannot say: Let's not warn the user about this dangerous action, since he may be afraid of it. What is also funny is that the installer stops and ask confirmation before rebooting. You know why? because at this time, there is the great danger of... rebooting from the CD! A very frightening situation indeed. By the way, you are certainly a bit angry about this, but as you say, come on...I'm pretty sure you have skills enough for fixing the problem, so I don't see any need for being that negative. - First I still not have figured out how to get my other systems working again, assuming I can, which I don't even know yet. (No: I don't have enough skills to write a windows MBR by hand with a disk editor). - Then I did not of course tagged this bug critical just because it destroyed MY machine, but because it can destroy everyone's MBR. Remember that, no, Debian is not Windows, neither Redhatthis is a volunteer project:-) I have never and will never complain loud about free software that does not deliver. But this is different: it actually delivers something really nasty. If this is lilo, I think this BR may be merged with 229211. I don't think so. The debian-installer should also pause and think for a second instead of rushing like this and fully delegate to some sub-module such a dangerous action. I am just suggesting here a complex, cutting-edge technology: a confirmation box, yes/back. Again, I don't see the point in fixing bugs with LILO since you don't even have the time to choose LILO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#230552: installation report: IBM Thinkpad X23
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In short: Installation is great, but SW-management so difficult that I don't even know where to begin. Well, I felt lost until I installed aptitude. This gave me the view on sw packages I liked and understood. You can disable install recommended / suggested packages automatically found in Options Dependency handling. Then you get smaller systems while still have all the dependencies under control. Also note that e.g. x-window-system is a meta-package containing a quite a number of packages. You can install x-window-system-core and xterm and your favourite windowmanager instead and cut down on packages. But there will be no other way than reading the package descriptions, dependencies and documentation for finding out what is essential. Is this of any help? Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#230396: installation-reports bug report
Chris Leigh writes: Package: installation-reports snip I have a D-Link DE-220 ISA Card. The address/irq is 0x300, 11. The detection failed (its not a PNP card). Choosing the module 'ne' also failed, because it did not prompt me to enter the io port and irq. ISA detection is shaky. Your chance is to add DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low to the boot prompt. Then you have a chance to enter irq io and the like. However, you are then asked a lot more questions. (This is also known as booting expert at least on the CDs, I'm not sure, whether this works on the boot floppies as well. I was able to get the card to work by using insmod with the correct io/irq from the command line. well then. Hope this report helps. Any chance on getting the new installer to fit inside 24MB of RAM? The installer uses approx. 32 MB, installs with that much RAM have been reported to work. So the first answer is no. HOWEVER, there is a chance if you are able to create and activate a swap partition before the modules are downloaded, thus making more room available for the ram disk. Search the archive at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot, there was some discussion about this this or last month. Thanks for your report, and hope this helps. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SATA scsi and ide detail found on debian-user
Hello, nosing around I found http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06750.html Where the poster writes: SATA disks can be seen as ide of scsi, I have only had success with scsi (kernel config CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y), otherwise the syustem freezes right after the disks are detected Maybe that is helpful for the problem ealier on this list starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/msg01728.html Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
grub stuff, was: MD/Software RAID support
Hi, Finn-Arne Johansen writes: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:40:33AM +0100, Paul Fleischer wrote: Hi again, I have put both the mdcfg and my modified mdadm package (modified to create the udeb) up on http://proguy.dk/d-i/ for those who want to try them out. Only the source packages are currently available, but I can supply i386 if needed. Currently, the process will fail when trying to configure a kernel for the system. The solution is to install mdadm on the target partition, and retry the operation. I will look into this shortly. Without having tested your package, Doesn the installation of the kernel fails due to the fact that grub-installer/update-grub doesn't handle Raid partitions ? I have found another ``oddity'' while playing installations. I decided to have a seperate partition /dev/hda1 mounted to /boot/grub yes, /boot/grub and not /boot, and just have the auxiliary files and menu.lst in there. grub itself was installed into the MBR. Now this may seem useless, however, I wish to make the point that update-grub (??? The script that runs after kernel installation) fails at this point. Something about cannot find or open device. Sorry, I currently cannot access the logfiles ATM, but I can redo this if you wish. So I unmounted /target/boot/grub, made the installation, and copied the stuff over. Booting worked after adding a link: /boot/grub/grub - /boot/grub because otherwise grub does not find the *_stage1_5. (It will search /boot/grub and /grub but not / on that partition). Maybe this is the same problem, maybe not. And along a different line: grub and LVM AFAIK grub in its current state is not able to boot a kernel from LVM --- please correct me if I'm wrong. There is a patch present at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=977 It is not clear to which version of grub this patch is made, and I have not succeeded to make this work. But maybe someone can help me out on this. Maybe this is being worked on. Maybe this is solved long ago. Would it be desirable to have grub boot kernel off lvm volumes? I'd say: yes. But at least a warning or test should be added to partconf et al. when LVM is used. Is this of any help? Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228848: want to disable hardware auto detection on bootup
Hi, Florian Effenberger writes: I want to disable the hardware auto detection on bootup, because it does not always work reliably. The method with /etc/modules.conf is sometimes better :) I guess, you mean _after_ the installation is done. I found out that discover is doing this, and I just removed the link in /etc/rcS.d The cleaner option would be to deinstall discover. If you need this prior to the installation, forget my message ... Hope this helps, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#228848: want to disable hardware auto detection on bootup
Florian Effenberger writes: Hi Eric, It would be good if the installer could ask whether you want autodetection or not, WHILE and AFTER installation. Hm, not entirely sure, but booting expert instead of just pressing return gives you the choice whether to scan for hw or not. There are several stages of hw detection, and I have not tried to avoid it. But I remember this question. Try that anyway ... but be warned that the number of questions increases quite a bit. boot: expert Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#228178: Toshiba Satellite 1110-Z14 install report
Giuseppe Sacco writes: The actual italian language is colony of english language :-( Do not despair, we are with you! Erich (from Germany) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kudos and nitpicking of german translation of d-i
Hi Dennis, Dennis Stampfer writes: Hey Erich, On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:43:04AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: * Set the host name nitpicking menu: Hostname festlegen Hm. Rechnername maybe? I know a fair number of Germans, who claim host == mainframe. I've had discussions. So I suggest to use Rechnername instead. /nitpicking Do you want this only for strings like Set the host name or for choose-mirror, too? Geben Sie den Rechnername des Mirrors ein, von dem Debian heruntergeladen ... sounds not that good to me... Only for set the hostname (network config). About ``Mirror'' I have not come to better sounding suggestions. Spiegel ?!?! Uh, oh. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with modules after kernel compilation
Hi Paul (or Christian ?), Christian Christmann writes: Hi, I'm trying to install the new kernel 2.6.1. To do this, I already tried I'm running the debian stock kernel 2.6.1 on my desktop system without problems: % uname -a Linux artemis 2.6.0-1-k7 #2 Sun Jan 11 17:06:46 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux I noticed on playing with this: Even *IF* you used the modular stock kernel before, you will need to add modules Boot the system, change to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as root, run modconf. This will give you a menu with hw types and names to choose from. Modconf will also add the successful entries to /etc/modules. If that doesn't work, browse /lib/modules/2.6.1/... to guess the names of modules. Then add missing modules on the commandline modprobe -v ne2k-pci for example. If you successfully load a module, enter its name into /etc/modules. This is what I have to use --- snip --- # onboard (Asus K7V mother board with Athlon 500 MHz) apm rtc mousedev psmouse floppy loop lp # SCSI cdrom, tape (dawi control card with sym53c875 controller) sym53c8xx st sr_mod sg # graphics card (Matrox millenium G400) amd-k7-agp mga # sound card (Ensoniq) es1371 # ethernet (NE2000 pci and Realtek 8139) ne2k-pci 8139too pppoe Also note, that running 2.6 requires a number of packages to be updated, I got the most information from kerneltrap.org: Feature: HowTo Upgrade To The 2.6 Kernel http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799 Good luck! Erich every possible option, like compiling the kernel with the defaults values, choosing a minimal configuration with make xconfig for my system, kompiling the kernel with make bzImage or make bzlilo. After this I always install the modules with make modules and make modules_install. Theses commands seems to work since I don't get any error message and after that the new directory /lib/modules/2.6.1 is created. The problem is now the boot process. After choosing the kernel with lilo the screen gets blank for several seconds. In this meantime I don't get any information about the system, but you can see that the hard disk is working. The next I see is the login windows. At this point my USB mice doesn't work correctly but my notebook touchpad does. After the login some hardware like the soundcard or the network interface don't fork. Moreover, the command lsmod displays just a few modules which seem not to be used. The command modconf doesn't work either. After starting it I can only confirm the starting windows which cancles the program.. In my opinion the system has some problems with the modules. How can I install them manually. Or is there something else I could do. Thank you very much for your answer. A brief report about my system; - at the moment I am using the kernel 2.4.22 which has been installed with Knoppix 3.3 . In this configuration everythings works fine - my computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2410-404 notebook. Thanx. Regards, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i386/beta2 image on gluck possibly OLD!
I sent this earlier, but is somehow does not show up in the archive ... Hi all, I find this: looking at http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/ Index of /cdimage/testing/netinst/i386 ... beta2/ 15-Jan-2004 00:41 - This looks good. Index of /cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2 MD5SUMS 03-Jan-2004 14:46 1k sarge-i386-businesscard.iso 03-Jan-2004 14:46 36.5M sarge-i386-netinst.iso 03-Jan-2004 14:46 107M But then the files themselves show Jan 3rd. ??? Did I severly miss something? Or is just the timestamp crook? This looks good to my eyeballs for ia64/beta2:sarge-ia64-netinst.iso 14-Jan-2004 15:21 135M powerpc/beta2: sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso 14-Jan-2004 15:23 125M Ok. Its me, nitpicking again. So I decided to download and check the image first ... [later] less mnt/isolinux/isolinux.txt ^L ^O0fWelcome to Debian GNU/Linux sarge!^O07 This is a Debian installation CDROM, built on 20040103. -- I conclude, this is the wrong image. Can someone confirm, please? Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i386/beta2 image on gluck possibly OLD!
Steve Langasek writes: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:27:11AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: I conclude, this is the wrong image. Can someone confirm, please? It's the right image. The beta2 images for i386 were prepared well before the images for powerpc and ia64. Thanks for clarifying! Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kudos and nitpicking of german translation of d-i
Alwin Meschede writes: If this is OK for most (all?) of you, I'll check in the stuff to CVS. With me, that is obviously ok! :-) Thanks, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some more german issues
Jörg Friedrich wrote Thorsten Sauter schrieb am Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 um 23:55:57 +0100: * Holger Schurig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-14 14:46]: | The translation of no-dead-keys into ohne Tottasten is not good. It | means without Death-keys. Better would be ohne tote Tasten. hmm. I don't think ohne tote Tasten isn't a better translation. The keys are not really dead. The are called death-keys, so I propose my translation. But please change it, if you think it's correct. Hi, just in german, its only related to the translation of 'dead-keys': Diese Tasten heissen wirklich 'Tottasten'. Grund: auf einer mechanischen Schreibmaschine produzieren diese keinen Wagenvorlauf. Üblicherweise um Akzente zu schreiben. Wird auch in jedem vernünftigen Schreibmaschine-Kurs so erklärt. Auch in Bedienungsanleitungen von Schreibmaschinen steht das genau so drin. Impressive. So Tottasten is correct after all. You win on this one. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kudos and nitpicking of german translation of d-i
Hi folks, I had a look at the German translation as well. I booted in expert mode just to see more screens, I went into menus I would normally not use. I did not find a lot of real bugs (missing translations). nitpicking And I use these tags for questionable stuff. /nitpicking Overall: The translators have done a tremendous job hitting a moving target! Congratulations! Cheers, Erich -- image: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ sarge-i386-netinst-20040111.iso (20040111) a32f7a32be8adff64514ec4e46a196e7 boot: expert * Choose Language (de_DE) after selecting German/Germany everything goes to German translations EXCEPT first line: Choose Language :-) * Select a Keyboard Layout (PS/2, US_english) * PC Keyboard * then on 2nd screen (choose keyboard layout) some characters appear scrambled, e.g. W_hlen Sie das Tastaturlayout where _ is actually 2 characters, a 'Ã' and a Euro sign. however, the Umlauts in the title and Buttons of the screen are correct! nitpicking Title: Wählen Sie eine Tastaturbelegung aus Text: Wählen Sie das Tastaturlayout für die PC-Tastatur aus: would use same term 'Tastaturbelegung' in both cases. The death keys were mentioned by someone else (Tottasten) /nitpicking * Detect and mount CD-ROM modprobe -v ide-disk fails, known bug, not a problem. before finishing this menu item: Einige Module konnten nicht geladen werden Das '', das für '' benötigt wird ... Seems to me that $vars were 'quoted' and now only the '' are left ... * Load installer components (cdrom-retriever) Komponenten des Installers laden cdrom-retriever: Fetch modules from a CDROM floppy-retriever: Fetches modules from a floppy title and text are translated, but menu items are not. Could use the same text, though. Progress bar says empfange package here, see below ... * Main Menu Still Choose language last item: Neustart des Systems restart of system, äh, boot or restart the installer? not entirely clear to me from the german text (its reboot). same confusion in Installation beenden und neustarten. What is restarted? nitpicking Installation des Bootloaders LILO auf einer Festplatte Installiere den GRUB Bootloader auf einer Festplatte same activity, different phrasing. /nitpicking nitpicking Basis-System and Grundsystem are both used (base-system), where I would suggest to consistently use Basis-System. /nitpicking * Detect network hardware (ne2k-pci) * Configure the network (dhcp) * Detect hardware (disks: 2 scsi, 1 ide, cdrom ide) * Partition a hard drive cfdisk is talking English with me. I think this has been reported/discussed and possibly fixed somewhere other than this particular netinst image. * Configure and mount partitions Title and Text ok, Menu 3 of 5 not translated: Dateisystem bleibt erhalten Create ext2 file system Create ext3 file system Create reiserfs file system Erstelle Auslagerungsspeicher nitpicking Erstelle Auslagerungsspeicher add (swap) IMHO I'm too deep into computers to know what a Auslagerungsspeicher is. Easy, it's swap. But I haven't heard this before. leaving the menu: Ende should be Fertigstellen IMHO /nitpicking * Automatically partition hard drives how nice, it lets me out again ... *sweat* * Install the base system nitpicking downloading packages: lade package herunter retrieving packages (see above): empfange package could be kopiere in both cases IMHO /nitpicking nitpicking menu entry: Grundsystem installieren but title above progress bar Installiere Basis-System could be Basis-System in both cases IMHO /nitpicking * Install the kernel - Install Lilo Bootloader * Install Grub Bootloader default (hd0), not '(hd0,2)', is this supposed to be like that? * exiting to shell. Hmm. I selected keyboard USamerican, and I selected Language German/Germany. However, if I exit to shell, the '-' key will produce nothing, and the '/' key will produce '-', which looks awfully like a german keyboard layout. That is now also for the second console ... :-( * Finish installation and reboot Time to reboot and fix the keyboard layout :-) --- smoke test .^_ pt. pffft. pfft. pft. pft. pft. * Intro message * Configure the keyboard display a message of failed to dump keyboard type ... never seen that before. Falls into Configure console data screen Title translated, but Text isn't The keymap describes how keys are ... Next screen: Konfiguriere console-data Title: What policy do you want to apply regarding keymaps List items and buttons are translated. select from list: qwerty / US american / Standard ==
[Q] make demo fails
Hi all, I checked out d-i from alioth ok, and e.g. fakeroot make TYPE=cdrom cd-image works fine. however, root# make TYPE=cdrom demo fails with this message: # Set up modules.dep, ensure there is at least one standard dir (kernel # in this case), so depmod will use its prune list for archs with no # modules. set -e; \ mkdir -p ./tmp/demo/tree/lib/modules/2.4.22-1-386/kernel; \ if [ -e ./tmp/demo/tree/boot/System.map ]; then \ depmod -F ./tmp/demo/tree/boot/System.map -q -a -b \ ./tmp/demo/tree/ 2.4.22-1-386; rm -f \ # ./tmp/demo/tree/boot/System.map; \ else depmod -q -a -b ./tmp/demo/tree/ 2.4.22-1-386; fi ; == depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented make[1]: *** [demo-tree-stamp] Error 1 make: *** [demo] Error 2 What is the build system trying to tell me? I'm running on kernel 2.6-test9-1 and required tools, is that a problem? Grateful for hints, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#226599: Error while running modprobe
Hi Harri, seeing the messages about (some) failed modprobes are the price for DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium. At this point they can be ignored --- I suppose you do not have hw for aiv7xxx, and ide-disk is already loaded by ide-probe (lsmod and console 3 or 4 show this). Maybe this stuff should get lowered to low, but nothing to be concerned about right now. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install report (success, i386+xfs) was: XFS support in d-i: netinst CD image available for download
Hi Steve,
I have successfully installed a xfs based system. Details see
below. I was very pleased with the installer image! Thanks!
Cheers,
Erich
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/d-i/xfs/
sarge-i386-xfs-netinst.iso (20040103-22:18
fd313be3191d20ad024ac62c4a781fd3
uname -a:
Linux dione 2.4.22-xfs-386 #1 Fri Jan 2 10:40:30 CST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
Date:
Sun Jan 4 18:16:34 CET 2004
Method:
boot: xfs DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
Machine: Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)
board: DFI K6BV3+/66
ide0:IBM-DJNA-371800
ide3:GCR-8523B (LG cdrom)
Processor:
model name : AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions
cpu MHz : 200.461
Memory:
MemTotal: 321952 kB
Root Device:
/dev/hda7 4 GB
FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 xfs 3988960210284 3778676 6% /
/dev/hda3 ext3 3936432559972 3176500 15% /mnt
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Disk /dev/hda: 18.0 GB, 18042716160 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2330 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda2 9 49 309960 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda716372165 3999208+ 83 Linux== /
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
00:12.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology: Unknown device 9805 (rev 01)
00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model
64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0598 (rev 04)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:8598
00:07.0 Class 0601: 1106:0596 (rev 23)
00:07.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 10)
00:07.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 11)
00:07.3 Class 0600: 1106:3050 (rev 30)
00:12.0 Class 0780: 9710:9805 (rev 01)
00:13.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8029
00:14.0 Class 0100: 1000:0006 (rev 02)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:002d (rev 15)
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: [O]
Create file systems:[E] mkfs.xfs -f needed
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
* Configure and mount partitions
hda7 xfs /
hda2 swap
on second attempt to format already formatted xfs partition
error: mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite
workaround: issue command on shell, redo with leave filesystem
intact
* xfs
I saw fsck.xfs not found in the smoke test reboot, and
thereafter. I installed xfsprogs (which were not automatically
installed). I cannot see the error, nor can I find it in
/var/log/{boot,messages,syslog}
* install a kernel:
the correct kernel was marked as default.
Other than that, I did have only minor problems, which are not
related to the xfs stuff, as far as I can tell:
* retrieving + verifying coreutils failed. (DMA Thing?) but could
not be reproduced after starting over.
* installing grub on '(hd0)' hung on probing devices again,
killing it. Then exit and reboot will fire up installing
lilo. This menu does not give me the choice to get out --- has
been reported. So killed it again.
Installed grub into /dev/hda7, but that left me with an
unbootable system ... did it again!
After redoing the installation a 3rd time, installing grub
worked like a breeze. I do not believe that this was a general
problem.
* devfs
devfs does no seem to be mounted without
me installing and activating devfsd
is this the way it's supposed to be?
More general things:
* grub: /boot/grub/menu.lst
grub-update generates the menu.lst file
--- snip --
## ## End Default Options ##
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.22-xfs-386
root(hd0,6)
kernel
Re: 2003-12-30 failure report
Hello, LABEL Sarge KERNEL vmlinuz.sarge.i386 APPEND load initrd=netboot-initrd.sarge.i386.gz devfs=nomount \ ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 video=aty128fb Try devfs=/dev,dall That should help. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation report failure 20031230
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had earlier used the older woody installer to load up debian on this machine and then thought that I'd try out the new installer just to see how it goes. Everything went fine until I got to base software install and then there was a failure installing awk (probably the first This also happens, if you repeat the Installing Base System step. It has happened to me several times. Moving the file out of the way and then repeating the step did work for me. I do not know where this error message is generated, but it occurs fairly early, so my wild guess preinstall stage of the [m]awk package. executable to be installed. I got an error that awk already existed. Perhaps the user could be asked if they were upgrading there system or making a new one ? This is a nicety, but useful. In the next attempt, I nuked my old partitions and everything went well. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation Report (success, i386)
Joey Hess writes: Erich Waelde wrote: I have not had any problems, and the little thingies are all reported already. Would you mind listing them anyway in breif, so I can make sure? Sure. I keep booting linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium because without it I have difficulties to assign the correct menu points to what I see ... * Choose Language yes, arabic shows ??? * Detect and mount CD-ROM . modprobe -v ide-disk fails, known bug, ide-disk has been loaded by ide-detect before. And I believe with high priority, the error message is not shown. continue, no problem * Install Grub Bootloader The step completed without error, however: . I'm not formatting the /boot partition in earlier steps. . There is a grub/menu.lst file from other sarge installations already when grub-update is called . a menu entry with the install kernel is already present, but not neccessarily correct . the menu entry featuring 2.4.22-1-386 kernel pointed to a different root device (1,3), and was not overwritten with the current device (0,0), nor was an additional entry appended. . I also had to add devfs=/dev,dall, of course. This is fairly special, so I cannot tell, whether this is to be considered a bug. Smoke Test reboot: * reiserfsck is not available (known problem) * Configure apt I have added http://ip.of.my.gwbox/apt-cacher/; into the proxy line, but the following apt-get update fails the same way as if no network was available. Variations with IP vs. name, adding ports, adding or leaving trailing '/' did not make a difference. Things are not obvious for me to track, because the sources.list file is not written at this point. Editing sources.list by hand and adding the apt-cacher does work. I think it would be nice, if it worked from the proxy, but that's just me. * Select packages to install . selected aptitude . only _selected_ packages, but did not proceed to install * Install selected packages . did not install the additional selections. known problem. awaiting --selections-only for aptitude, or similar when booting net instead: * yes, I have seen the validating %s, too. * I still saw the split netcfg (dhcp, static), but not sure if this was in yesterdays image (2004-01-01) Hope this helps, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Report (failure)
Hi all, New year, new images, new luck, new exciting features: used image from ~manty: sarge-i386-netinst-20031231.iso (2003-12-31 17:00) 2c806ec1e53ac891b431ab0a6a84bfab Everything works fine until Installation of Basesystem installation returned Error 127 tail /target/var/log/debootstrap.log Errors were encountered while processing: libgnutls7 exim4-daemon-light mailx at exim4 /usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1: sleep: not found HOWEVER: /target/bin/sleep is available and chroot /target sleep 2 exit works. So cp /target/bin/sleep /bin cp /target/lib/librt* /lib sleep 2 now works as well RETRY: (install base system) fails with ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists This one is annoying and has bitten me before. Moving out of the way, RETRY: same error as above, the most likely candidate for a problem is this: libgnutls7 depends on libopencdk8; however: Package libopencdk8 is not installed. and then exim4-daemon-light depends on libgnutls mailx depends on mail-transport-agent probided by exim4-daemon-light at depends on mail-transport-agent probided by exim4-daemon-light This is independant of boot method (net, linux, expert) or image (netinst, or businesscard). Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Report (success, i386)
Hi all, what a difference todays image makes! Everything worked really smooth this time :-) I have not had any problems, and the little thingies are all reported already. Cheers, Erich Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: image: people.d.o/~manty/... sarge-i386-netinst-20040101.iso (20041010-14:31) eb458478215423166baa4a697f1cd10a uname -a: Linux dione 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux Date: Fri Jan 2 00:29:46 CET 2004 Method: booting from CDROM Machine: old x86 Processor: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 6 model name : AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 200.461 Memory: 320 MB Root Device: scsi sda4 Root Size/partition table: FilesystemType 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 reiserfs 1816788229748 1587040 13% / /dev/hda1 ext3 475860 17422433870 4% /boot /dev/sdb3 ext3 45559 4127 39080 10% /extra /dev/hda1 1 65 491368+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 498 573 310992 82 Linux swap /dev/sda4 5741017 1816848 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 9951017 47058 83 Linux Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (r ev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11) 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30) 00:12.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology: Unknown device 9805 (rev 01) 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) 00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0598 (rev 04) 00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:8598 00:07.0 Class 0601: 1106:0596 (rev 23) 00:07.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 10) 00:07.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 11) 00:07.3 Class 0600: 1106:3050 (rev 30) 00:12.0 Class 0780: 9710:9805 (rev 01) 00:13.0 Class 0200: 10ec:8029 00:14.0 Class 0100: 1000:0006 (rev 02) 01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:002d (rev 15) 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: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Report (success)
Hello all, I did a simple installation (2 partitions / + /boot, no LVM, no raid) on my crash box. This is what I found. The bad news: Using mantys netinst CD (2003-12-30) with net boot method still fails on the already reported di-utils-devicefiles. The good news: Using expert, i.e. installing from CD rather than from apt repository on the network works fine! So this problem/dependency/whatever lurks on the mirrors rather than the installer image? Q: is ftp2.de.d.o a good choice for bleeding edge? Is there a problem (apart from just taking some time) in the replication across mirrors? Overall: I'm impressed with the installer! Thank you all very much for grinding this out! Cheers, Erich Debian-installer-version: 30-Dec-2003 sarge-i386-netinst.iso from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ 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: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[O] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Minor quirks: ~ * detect hw (1st run) + Loading ide-disk reported an error, because is is already loaded. This has been reported before. + When booting net, ide-cd failed with unresolved symbols (see below). Is this supposed to work? + When booting expert, ide-scsi failed to load with an error message. Since I don't need it, I didn't bother. Is this a (known) problem? * configure network On the CD image, there is still the version, where Configure network using dhcp and configure static network show up as two different items. I think, I have seen this merged into one line with a selection screen on a CVS image, so don't bother. * Choose a mirror Strange sorting in the country list, Germany (de) comes before Denmark (dk) :-) * Install the base system For Info: 75% is where the postinst/configure/update actions take place, the disk is used, but not heavily. (several ps aux) Someone mentioned this, so I had a look :-) * Install Grub Bootloader into sda4 (root partition) IMHO (hd1,3), not understandable by innocent folks --- worse: I cannot get out at this point AND if I leave the default '(hd0)', my MBR is gone. This has been reported before. This is not a problem for me, but for beginners. IMHO: I would heavily recommend a create a boot floppy option here (like in woody). I recommended this option to all those, who were requesting my assistance at installation time --- and wanted to keep their Windows partition working. With a boot floppy I believe it is simpler for beginners. Just my 2 cent. so: make this a wish list item then? --- Configuring the base system... Is this still the right list here? * Configure the keyboard ... Nothing did happen, returned to screen quickly Unfortunately, I do not find any hints in /var/log/... Error? Not a problem for me at this time and unless it's confirmed by someone else, of course. * Turned out that adduser failed. Digging in /var/log/base-config.log: /var/log/dpkg/info/passwd.config: line 283: 711 Segmentation fault \ adduser --disabled-password --gecos $RET $USER /dev/null chpasswd: line 1: unkown user x the second line looks like a consequense of the first. Later, on the shell prompt, adduser worked like a charm. * Set the host name and * configure apt apt-get update failed. turned out that /etc/hosts /etc/network/interfaces /etc/resolv.conf were not filled with the information given in the first stage of the installation. However, /etc/hostname was filled correctly, and the kernel modules for the ethernet card were loaded. This problem has been reported before, too, and possibly fixed. * Select packages to install uups, installs read-edid and mdetect (and more?) behind my neck! :-) Menu to choose between tasksel | aptitude | dselect WOW! Cool! Big applause here, folks! Selected aptitude, everyting worked as expected. * pcmcia-cs was installed despite the box not having any hw needing it. Most probably known feature. * Install selected packages I was wondering, what this would do, after I had installed stuff using aptitude already. Well, adds perl and libdb4.0. That's fine with me. Without Debconf_priority=low or medium, I probably won't see this item anyway. * no install_report.template in /root I think this was mentioned also. The Gory Details: ~ uname -a: Linux dione 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Dec 30 20:33:00 CET 2003 Method:
Re: aptitude, was: generally successful install report from usb keychain
Hello Harri, aptitude options dependency handling: unselect: install suggested packages automatically and unselect: install recommended packages automatically First thing I do :-) and the world looks nicer for me. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Install report (not successfull, 2nd image of 20031230, i386)
Hello all, I just pressed send and reload and there was a new netinst-image! Well, then just try this also. Debian-installer-version: 30-Dec-2003 11:11h netinst.iso 2nd build from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ just to be sure: md5sum sarge-i386-netinst-20031230.2.iso 8d88a368fc2225144b8592d75684 sarge-i386-netinst-20031230.2.iso to make it short: This image is no good for my box. - network cannot be configured, because ne2k-pci fails to load with unresolved symbols: insmod: unresolved symbol ei_close_Rc8e3042e insmod: unresolved symbol ei_open_R8c9e3b69 insmod: unresolved symbol ethdev_init_R2342cc80 insmod: unresolved symbol ei_interrupr_Rb93d8fa5 insmod: unresolved symbol NS8390_init_Rd79efca9 this worked on the image before. - ncr53c8xx (scsi) is missing and sym53c8xx is not loaded through the hw detection phase. loading sym53c8xx, sr_mod and sd_mod manually results in the SCSI disks being avaliable, though. this worked on the image before - booting net still results in the di-utils-devicefiles problem, see my last message - I noticed that the selection list in Load installer modules is considerably shorter when booting expert instead of net. That may or may not be a problem This time I got a whee bit more fancy and requested lvmcfg and md-modules to be installed. + configure LVM shows up and works, which is nice :-) - ext3 has vanished from the selection in conf.+mount filesystems - I needed to mount /boot manually, not sure why. Its on ide (not scsi), and I requested the file system to be left alone. mount /dev/hda1 /target/boot would not work, whereas mount /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /target/boot did. - installing the kernel failed, with mk.initrd claiming that /dev/vg00/lvol1 does not exist. This is not correct, but it makes dpkg install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-386 fail. This leaves the system in an unbootable state, at which point I think, it's time to quit for today. At this time I would not call the last 3 points a problem, since it can all stem from the same source as the unresolved symbols, namely some build error on the image. Cheers, Erich Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked:[O] Configure network HW: [E] unresolved symbols on ne2k-pci Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [E] ide drive ok, scsi only after loading sym53c8xx manually Partition hard drives: [O] ---configure LVM[O] Create file systems:[O] no ext3 any more ? reiserfs. Mount partitions: [E] did not mount /dev/hda1, manually ok. Install base system:[O] ---extra packages [O] ---kernel [E] mk.initrd: /dev/vg00/lvol1 does not exist ? Lie! fails at this point. Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:%20Debian 3 - white screen and lock up during system setup - HELP
Hi Robbie, I would recommend to get KNOPPIX available at http://www.knoppix.org - Download burn that to CD and try booting it. Knoppix lives out of RAM and won't touch your system unless you tell it to. So you have a chance to see, whether this one runs or not. The symptoms you describe look like a hw problem to me. You did pull all the plugs and put them back? Unplugging the disks and cards and try booting Knoppix to see, whether it works at some point ... Hope this helps. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Current nstallation fails at di
Hi folks, using several boot images like - netinst.iso (24.12.2003) from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ - boot floppies (27.12.2003) from http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ - TYPE=netboot cd_image from cvs.alioth.debian.org:/cvsroot/d-i booting linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY and several package repositories like - ftp2.de.debian.org - ftp.debian.org I always end up at the same problem when downloading the installer components: Error message on installer screen (vc/0) Loading di-utils-device-files failed for unknown reasons. Aborting. last message on vc/2 (/var/log/messages) insmod floppy which looks ok, since this occurs at an earlier point last messages on vc/3 (/var/log/syslog) user.debug anna[791]: DEVUG install scsi-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di,\ dependency from scsi-extra-modules-2.4.22-1-386-di 4 seconds gap here! user.info anna[791]: corrupted status flag!! user.info anna[791]: (process:1090): tar: user.info anna[791]: (process:1090): Couldnt remove old file user.info anna[791]: (process:1090): : Operation not permitted nothing else in /var/log/* Continuing at this point crashes something (installer ?) in that it tries to insmod: init_module: vesafb: No such device or address which repeats every few seconds and renders the system unusuable That is most probably a consequence of failing to load the devices package properly. Interestingly, going back yields the same result. Hope this helps. Erich hardware: CPU AMD K6/200 MHz Memory 320 MB booting from IDE-CDROM Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11) 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) 00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#225224:
Hello, It booted OK using the standard boot method, detected the hardware, did a successful DHCP lookup (checked this by going to the shell and typing ifconfig and it had been given an IP address). It loaded cfdisk - I was trying to install to a spare ext2 partition I had so I didn't touch this. Then it failed when it tried to find a partition to mount, saying no partitions available. The same happened when I deleted and rewrote the spare (extended) partition in cfdisk. At this point, I gave up... this looks to me as if somehow the second run detect hw was not taking place. Did you verify that the modules were loaded and the hw was visible in /dev/discs/... ? Just wild guessing. Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Report
Hello folks, the new installer is a truely amazing piece of software, Thanks! I tried a fairly new image but failed, see below. Cheers, Erich -- INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: 24-Dec-2003 netinst.iso from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ ~/tmp 95 md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso 4aebe03b212df62024c33575922b1b50 sarge-i386-netinst.iso ~/tmp 96 grep netinst sarge-MD5SUMS.txt 4aebe03b212df62024c33575922b1b50 sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Date: 27.Dec.2003 Method: net DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium Machine: Processor: AMD K6 / 200 MHz Memory: 320 MB Root Device: SCSI /dev/discs/disc1/part3 Root Size/partition table: 2 GB Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11) 00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) 00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02) 00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) 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: [E] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems:[O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system:[E] Install boot loader:[ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: initial boot worked ok on CDROM which did have the described problems with earlier images! Boot: net DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium Yes, I would like to have an expert switch, too :-) choose mirror ... proxy = http://192.168.1.42:80/apt-cacher/ will not work for installer download, but would be nice. Detect Harddrives: ide-detect successful, loads ide-disk, and hw-detection will produce an error while loading ide-disk --- again --- but everything will work Load installer modules: marking lvmcfg and md-tools ok, however, I would need raidtools as well. There is a raidtools2-udeb on the CD image, however, I have not succeeded to install that. I can write /etc/raidtab myself, but without mkraid, raidstart, ... at my fingers, this is of no use. :-( mounting partitions: loads jfs modules, but does not show in list (ext2 ext3 reiserfs) also loads xfs module, but fails. see last point, since I could not convince the installer system to make a md raid or two, 1 for boot, 1 for lvm based everything else. resorting to a 2 GB ext3 partition, /dev/sda3's equivalent to continue installing base system: FAILS IMMEDIATELY with Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-386/Packages. find /target ... /target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release.malformed which does, however, look innocent to my eyes. nothing in /target/var/log/debootstrap.* lots of messages on vc/4, but cannot get up to start of this problem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
