Bug#261988: installation-reports: only minor problems
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version: pxeboot.tar from 26th of july 2004
uname -a: Linux portable 2.4.26-1-686 #1 Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST
2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 27 and 28 july 2004
Method: I used the pxeboot to start the installer and got packages
through a proxy from french official mirror
Machine: Dell latitude D600
Processor: Intel Pentium M 1300MHz
Memory: 256M
Root Device: IDE hda
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda3 133M 81M 45M 65% /
tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 5,4G 35M 5,1G 1% /home
/dev/hda7 361M 8,1M 334M 3% /tmp
/dev/hda5 4,6G 2,3G 2,1G 53% /usr
/dev/hda6 2,8G 150M 2,5G 6% /var
/dev/hda2 14G 4,2G 9,9G 30% /windows
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller
(rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB
2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller
(rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA
Storage Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250
Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus
Controller (rev 20)
0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus
Controller (rev 20)
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B
Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
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]
Comments/Problems:
-When repartionning, I wanted to change the size of the existing windows
partition. I got a warning message regarding writing changes although I
didn't make any changes. Worse, it wasn't clear if the resize will throw
everything away or keep data. Fortunately it keeped all the data, but I
think a message could inform the user about this point.
-If "assisted partitionning" is used after some manual configuration,
all this configuration seems lost : I had specificied a mount point for
the windows partition and it went lost when I used the "assisted
partitionning".
-Grub didn't detect the windows installation
-For the packages selection I choosed the first item (I don't remember
the name), and I noticed it downloaded mozilla and openoffice packages
for all languages. May be a selection of wanted languages could be added
to avoid to download rarely used languages
-XFree installation gave me a wrong keyboard (us instead of the french I
had specified at the beginning of debian install), and didn't generate
modes for 1024x768 resolutions.
-Kde default font was "Charter" which didn't have any special french chars
so I had to change it to "Bitstream Charter"
I didn't test the Wifi card nor the ACPI things.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro
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