Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/sarge-i386-netinst.iso 2004-07-06 18:20
uname -a: Linux dual 2.6.6-1-686-smp #1 SMP Wed May 12 16:41:10 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-07-07 07:00
Method: Network install from a minimal CD from main Debian site
Machine:Generic PC, Gigabyte GA-6BXDS mb
Processor:Dual PII 350MHz
Memory:256MB
Root Device:IDE ST317242A 16GB
Root Size/partition table:
Disk Partitions
Location IDE device A
Cylinders 33416
Size 16 GB
Model ST317242A
No. Type Extent Start End Use Free
1 Linux 1 32422 / 89 %
2 Extended 32423 33416
5 Linux swap 32423 33416 swap Location IDE device D
Cylinders 39770
Size 19 GB
Model IBM-DPTA-372050
Edit IDE parameters
No. Type Extent Start End Use Free
1 Linux 1 39770 /stuff 53 %Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW / AHA-39xx / AIC-7895 (rev 04)
0000:00:0c.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW / AHA-39xx / AIC-7895 (rev 04)
0000:01:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems 3DImage 9750 (rev f3)
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: I used the expert install as I wanted to see everything that happened. The only issue I had was that I told the installer at one point to not install the scsi drivers (as the m/b has on board scsi, which is unused) but it kept on asking me if I wanted to install the scsi drivers at various points along the way, which was a little annoying. In the end I gave in and said to install, but now I have a much longer reboot time while waiting for the scsi drivers to timeout :-(
I found it to be an excellent, intuitive installation process that worked extremely well. The auto-detection worked flawlessly (much better than some other distro's I had tried on the same machine, namely Mandrake and Gentoo). Ideally it would have detected it was running on an SMP box and installed an SMP image, but that was easy to do after the reboot via apt-get. Well done!
As an aside I am blown away by how efficient Debian is on that machine - on some critical apps (Apache/Tomcat/Java) it is almost as fast as a newish ASUS AMD2500+ 512MB box (running XP-Pro)!
Robert
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