Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: gluck:/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/alpha/20040427/sarge-alpha-netinst.iso uname -a: n/a Date: 2004-04-28 Method: CD boot via SRM console Machine: Microway AlphaPC 164SX Processor: Alpha 21164 533 MHz Memory: 384MB Root Device: /dev/hda1 Root Size/partition table: 176MB Output of lspci: 00:05.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 00:05.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 00:05.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) 00:08.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:08.1 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:08.2 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:08.3 USB Controller: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2164W [Millennium II] 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: [E] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Selecting Dvorak as a keyboard layout gives an "input in flex scanner failed" error in the logs. Retrying with American English layout succeeds. I picked XFS as the filesystem type for the partition I was installing on. This shouldn't have been allowed, but aboot-installer's partman hook is buggy. Aside from knowing the bootloader installation was going to fail at the end, the base install seemed to be going quite smoothly until it got to the point of installing the kernel. Due to a since-fixed base-installer bug, a 2.6 kernel was selected instead of 2.4.25; and 176MB just isn't big enough to bootstrap sarge *and* install a 2.6 kernel-image package into it. :) Otherwise, this was the cleanest alpha install in a while, thanks to the debootstrap fixes. Some hardware problems had my alpha off-line for a few days, so I wasn't able to test beta4 proper before it was released, but am looking forward to doing so tonight. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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