Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2005-09-06, Sparc32 netboot image from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-sparc/current/images/sparc32/netboot/boot.img
uname -a: Linux antigone 2.6.8-2-sparc32 #1 Wed Mar 23 02:20:49 EST 2005 sparc GNU/Linux
Date: 2005-09-06
Method: Used a serial console and told the OpenBoot PROM to netboot
('boot net' on the console). Setup a boot server on my laptop using
rarpd/bootp/tftpd. Used the boot.img file from the above address as boot
image. Then I basically did a normal netinstall, no proxies or simmilar
involved. Packages source: ftp://ftp.es.debian.org (sarge)
Machine: Sun SparcStation 5, 110MHz
Processor: Fujitsu MB86904, 110MHz
Memory: 64Mb
Root Device: SCSI (0:0:3:0), ST32171W SUN2.1G
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 66 heads, 62 sectors, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4092 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 48 98208 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 48 947 1839354 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 0 1015 2076690 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 947 1015 139128 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
Output of lspci and lspci -n: No output with both commands
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: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Everything worked pretty well actually, just partitioning/creating file
systems was a bit problematic.
I chose automatic partitioning of my HDD with a sun partition table (one
large partition for everything). That didn't work, failing with "Can't
partition this way, probably too many primary partitions" (or something
like that).
So I tried other partition table formats: msdos (which gave
the same error with auto partitioning) and bsd (which worked, but the
partitions weren't recognized by the kernel/devfs, so I couldn't mount
them).
Finally I chose sun partition table format again and partitioned
manually, which finally worked.
Creating ext3 on the / partition failed again though, with an opaque
"Couldn't create ext3 filesystem on /" error. So I chose ext2 for /boot
and /, which worked.
Everything else worked just fine.
Cheers,
Christian Aichinger
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