package: installation-reports Hi, on Saturday, July 1st, I tested d-i on an iMac G5 (http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=imac_g5&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC), which has a PPC970FX cpu with 1.8 ghz. As the owner (he's a OSX fan...) didn't really want to install linux on it, we went for stopping at the partitioning step :-) The gtk20060630mini.iso didn't had a install64 boot image, so it didnt boot. Colin had daily build gtk images (also powerpc64 ones), it booted, but they endlessly looped with a directfb error message. So we then booted the daily build netinst from 2006-06-30 cd image with install64. From the beginning the background screen was red, not blue. The module usbkbd not found at the end of boot. The network detection found 2 ethernet interfaces (wired ethernet and firewire, wireless was not found (airport-extreme/bcm43xx only available in >=2.6.17)), but there was no indication which interface is which. (If there is no bug for this already I would consider this as valuable to track and fix.) This is a usability issue. Also the user was surprised that all drives were labeled as scsi in partman, while in reality they where sata (internal) and three external firewire. Again, a usability issue - I guess this has been reported already? There we stopped and rebooted. Surprisingly his custom boot logo (he replaced the apple image which shows up right after powering on with something else) was gone! I was (am still am) quite surprised about this data loss. processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz stepping : 6 cpu MHz : 600.000 cache size : 2048 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2 bogomips : 1198.05 0000:f0:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. U3L AGP Bridge 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) 0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta PCI Bridge 0001:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta PCI Bridge 0001:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta PCI Bridge 0001:01:01.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) 0001:01:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta Mac I/O 0001:01:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:01:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) 0001:01:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) 0001:02:0c.0 IDE interface: Broadcom K2 SATA 0001:02:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta IDE 0001:02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. Shasta Firewire 0001:03:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta (Sun GEM) dmesg, partman, report-hw and syslog are available upon request. 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
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