Bug#578315: Installation Report
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>
I booted with a network install CD for Squeeze (Testing)
Image version: <http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/> netinstall CD for i386 I did not note the URL but when I click this now, there is sth. like http://hammurabi.acc.umu.se (whatever this is ...)
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Sun. 18 Apr. 2010 22:00
Machine: <ACER Aspire T630>
Processor: Pentium 4, 3GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Can't deliver, system is still installing...
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Can't deliver, system is still installing...
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
For the network card (a Intel PRO (e100)) the installer said, that there is firmware missing. In
your description I found, that the installer will ask to load the drivers from a medium.
I installed this system minimum 5 times, because I tried to find these drivers and made several errors.
But then I found them, copied them on a usb as the pc does not have floppy. But now that I am ready, the installer
does not ask anymore to load the drivers.
It seems to me, that when I choose the onboard nic the question would be displayed, as I tried this once.
But then - in the meaning to work around the problem - I installed a e100 (Intel) nic. The installer then asks, which nic
I want to use and I select the Intel. After that, the installer unfortunately does NOT ask to install the driver...
For the onboard nic I did not find the drivers at all... so I should stick with the Intel, but now
I am unsure, how to install them. If I just copy the files into /lib/firmware/e100, the drivers will not
be automatically updated, as I understand from your manual.
The installation of the boot loader did correctly recognise, that there is a XP and a Ubuntu Installation
on the system. It then sais that it should be safe to overwrite the MBR or so. I say OK and after
reboot there are only four lines and all for starting Debian. XP and Ubuntu are completely missing.....
Best regards
M. Doppler
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