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Bug#308779: Package: installation-reports

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 12 May 2005 - rc3 i386 iso from mirror
uname -a: Linux lisa 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Thu Jan 20 10:55:08 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux 
Date: Thu May 12 10:15:33 BST 2005
Method: Booted from rc3 installer image, network install from ftp.uk.debian.org 

Machine: Custom built on A7V333 MB
Processor: AMD 2100+
Memory: 512Mb
Root Device: 2xIDE (WD2500 Caviar RAID 250GB) - RAID1 setup
Root Size/partition table:

Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1 * 1 608 4883728+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda2 609 30401 239312272+ fd Linux raid autodetect 

Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 608 4883728+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc2 609 30401 239312272+ fd Linux raid autodetect 

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0               4806976    443320   4119476  10% /
tmpfs                   258204         0    258204   0% /dev/shm
/dev/md1             235556976     32860 223558508   1% /exports

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) 0000:00:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) 
0000:00:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
0000:00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation INI-A100U2W (rev 01) 0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) 
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23) 0000:00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) 

0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3099
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b099
0000:00:05.0 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10)
0000:00:09.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 50)
0000:00:09.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 50)
0000:00:09.2 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 51)
0000:00:0d.0 0100: 1101:1060 (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 78)
0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3147
0000:00:11.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
0000:00:11.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 23)
0000:00:11.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 23)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4742 (rev 5c)


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:    [O]
Reboot:                 [O]

Comments/Problems:
Absolutely spot on. Very impressed. We had a RAID1 setup from nothing to fully installed and working in about 15 minutes. Opted for manual package installation once the base system was installed. Grub installed perfectly (and worked with the RAID setup, even better!)
The only real issue I'd raise is the wording for the manual partition setup. It worked like a charm but it wasnt clear what you had to do - you have to go through 2 steps to actually create a partition, first the free space step and then the partition creation on that free space. This wasnt obvious from the wording. Once we'd worked that out (which admittedly didnt take long) it was great. My guess is that most users probably wont go down this route, so only experienced users will manually set partitions. I wonder whether the interface shouldnt show the freespace node at all and just allow you to create partitions directly. I realise that you may have a situation where theres more than one free space node on the disk but does the user need to know this at this point in the interface (especially as the majority situation is probably new disk or disk with single windows partition on that they want to resize and then add linux partition). 

Great work!

Marcus Williams
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