package: installation-reports Hi, on Saturday, July 1st, we also tested d-i on pismo notebook (also know as "g3 firewire" see http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallery&model=pg3sfirewire&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC), The 20060630mini.iso gui-started, crashed, looped. (The mouse pointer also had a square background.) The 20060701 from wouter builds gui-started and froze, with video=ofonly looped (similar to the 20060630mini.iso) The daily build from 2006-06-30 non-gtk worked, and had a blue background during installation :) In configure network all network devices were detected, the wireless one is labeled as 802.x, so it's recognizable (as opposed to the non recognizable firewire ethernet...) - and it was selected automatically as no cable was connected, nice! Interestingly only the left alt-key (with the need for also using the fn-button) worked to switch the consoles..., but after the installation all is normal, that is both alt-keys are fine for switching consoles and the fn-key is not needed. Another thing that strangely only happend once (we had to restart many times as the battery was empty and the power supply flaky...): during configure harddisc a menu for pcmcia options pops up. This is slightly confusing, because though the machine has pcmcia, there were no pcmcia cards used (and therefore also no pcmcia harddrives in the machine.) Then we were not asked if we wanted to create a normal user. Also I noted that I didnt have to select a kernel to be installed, nice. With the miboot-floppies i need to select a kernel for the final system. The german "select mirror" templates are translated inconsistently: "einen Netzwerkspiegel verwenden" and "Land the Debian-Archiv-Spiegelservers". (Besides that I'm still unconvinced that "Netzwerkspiegel" and "Spiegelserver" are useful translations...) From popularity-contest question on (til the end IIRC) there were localisation issues: the titles of the text-boxes were not translated, the content was. The laptop-task was preselected, yay - nice! The download-progress bar is very nice too, but unfortunatly there is no cancel button. (Which sucks, when you select the desktop task and are not aware how much you need to download for this and dont have that much time at the moment...) The rest of the installation went fine, the system booted into linux. (I plan to repeat this test with a macos9 and another one with a macosx installation, which should be kept, as well.) But the system time was set incorrectly to January 1st, 1904. I will visit him again in the end of July or beginning of August, to repeat these tests. Then I will also make sure to send the report immediatly, to remember some details (like the exact symptoms/errors with the gtk-image) better. regards, Holger processor : 0 cpu : 740/750 temperature : 43-45 C (uncalibrated) clock : 500MHz revision : 131.0 (pvr 0008 8300) bogomips : 995.32 machine : PowerBook3,1 motherboard : PowerBook3,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 70 (PowerBook Pismo) pmac flags : 0000001f L2 cache : 1024K unified memory : 1024MB pmac-generation : NewWorld 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI 0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02) 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB 0001:10:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211 0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI 0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth FireWire (rev 01) 0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01) I also have a complete copy of /var/log available.
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