Bug#337549: installation report
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: daily debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded Nov 3, 2005
uname -a: Linux myhost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 3-Nov-2005 18:30 PST
Method: Booted CD-ROM of netinst; http from mirros.kernel.org (no proxy)
Machine: an old Micron PC from several years back
Processor: P3 733
Memory: 640 MB
Root Device: 300.1GB IDE Hard Disk from Western Digital
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1 52M /boot
/dev/hda2 1.9G swap
/dev/hda3 3.8G /
/dev/hda4 274G /big
(I use "bind" mount points to point various things like /home, /var,
/usr/local, and others into the /big storage without having to divide
the storage into real, hard-sized partitions.)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 82)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 12)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 08)
0000:00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 20)
0000:00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
0000:00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25)
0000:00:12.0 Communication controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division WinModem
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT] (rev 04)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:0691 (rev 82)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:8598
0000:00:07.0 0601: 1106:0596 (rev 12)
0000:00:07.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
0000:00:07.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 08)
0000:00:07.3 0600: 1106:3051 (rev 20)
0000:00:0e.0 0401: 1274:1371 (rev 08)
0000:00:10.0 0200: 11ad:c115 (rev 25)
0000:00:12.0 0780: 12b9:1006
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0020 (rev 04)
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:
I always ask for itemized package selection so I can tweak the packages
that are suggested for certain categories, but in the aptitude session I
was placed into would not allow 'q' to take me from the install screen
to the package selection screen so I could choose some alternate/extra
packages to install. For instance, I always unselect exim and select
postfix instead. I ended up quitting out of aptitude, spawning a shell,
and running aptitude manually (which, fortunately, remembers the state
of the selected packages, and was a decent, albeit clumsy, solution).
I also substituted mysql4 for postgresql, and something weird happened
with one of the mysql packages. Perhaps one of the packages was not
downloaded correctly (is there a check for that?), but whatever the
reason, the mysql-server-4.1 package would neither completely install,
nor let me uninstall it (I tried to continue without installing mysql at
all). I ended up removing the mysql-server-4.1 deb from apt's cache dir
and trying the install again, and this time the file re-downloaded and
installed just fine, and package installation finished without any
further incident.
When configuring my server, I couldn't get SSL working with courier
IMAP/POP or postfix (TLS) until I installed the zlib1g-dev package
(which supplied a needed /usr/lib/libz.so symlink that openssl was
needing). There is a bug already filed on this in the debian bug system
(which is how I found the fix), but it would be nice to get fixed soon
so that people don't keep get tripped up on it (one temporary kluge
would be to add zlib1g-dev to the required packages for the current
openssl package until the openssl package is fixed to use the right
shared library).
..wayne..
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