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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Tue Aug 03 07:00:00 CEST 2004
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
uname -a:
Linux balu 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date:
Tue Aug 04 19:00:00 CEST 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Medium: Installer CD - sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Boot: ATAPI DVD-ROM
Install: network install over DHCP ADSL router without proxy.
ftp.debian.de
Machine:
Self build :-)
Board:
MSI MS-7021 KT6V-LSR, VIA KT600
PCI:
Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI
Realtek 8139C
Creative Labs SB Live! 1024 (EMU10k1)
IDE:
Maxtor 4D080H4 80GB IDE
PLEXTOR DVDR PX-712A
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502
SCSI:
Plextor PX-40TSi
AGP:
MSI GeForce2 MX/MX 400
TFT-Display:
Fujitsu X19-1
Processor:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, Model 8, 256 KB L2
Memory:
2 * 256 MB DDR 333 Infineon
Root Device:
IDE, /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 14726 7421872+ 83 Linux ReiserFS
/dev/hda2 14727 18795 2050776 83 Linux Ext2
/dev/hda3 18796 22864 2050776 83 Linux Swap
/dev/hda4 22865 158816 68519808 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 22865 81187 29394760+ 83 Linux ReiserFS
/dev/hda6 81188 158816 39124984+ 83 Linux ReiserFS
hda1 -> /
hda2 -> /var
hda3 -> swap
hda5 -> /data1 (opt, home, www)
hda6 -> /data2 (archive disk)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host
Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:06.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX
Modem/ISDN interface
0000:00:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev
08)
0000:00:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
(rev 08)
0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev
01)
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800
South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3189 (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198
0000:00:06.0 0780: e159:0001
0000:00:07.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 08)
0000:00:07.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 08)
0000:00:08.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:00:0a.0 0100: 1000:000c (rev 01)
0000:00:0f.0 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3227
0000:00:11.5 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 60)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev b2)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O] (DHCP server in ADSL router)
Config network: [O] nothing done, fully automatic
Detect CD: [E]
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:
Although I'm a software engineer I'm also doing the system administration
at our company. I have installed about 50 Suse, Redhat and Solaris systems
in the last 4 years. But my favorite system is Debian. I'm using it since
1997 on all my private machines. Most times the Unstable version :-)
Congratulations for the new debian installer - in my opinion it's the
biggest step in the debian history.
Now my comments:
- "Detect CD" Error - no fstab entry has been created for the Plextor SCSI
CD-Rom
- it would be nice to have some display resolution dialog at the beginning
of the installation. The installer chose a quite bad resolution for my
TFT.
- it would be nice to have a direct kernel version selection dialog/comment
at the beginning of the installation. I started the installation twice
until I booted with linux26. The VIA KT600 Mainboards needs 2.6, otherwise
(Kernel 2.4 which seems to be the default) DMA is not supported and the
installation takes extreme long time.
- the first and second installation menu seems to be a little bit
inconsistent.
The first dialog contains the text "affects default locale, ... and keyboard
layout...". The second dialog has the title "Select a keyboard layout". In
my opinion the "keyboard layout" text in the first dialog is wrong.
- I did a manual patitioning, because I prefer the var device to be ext2.
I have seen systems with harddisk defects which locked after several
minutes.
Because the systems had /var on a ReiserFS partition the logs containing the
harddisk warnings have been rolled back after system reboot. It took
much time to find the reason for the system freeze :-(
I think the debian partitioning tool is quite good. But I have seen two a
little bit unhandy things:
- it's quite difficult to find how to define a partition as swap partition
- if a set a partition to a mount point and afterwards want to set another
partition to a mount point, the already used mount point is shown again
in the list of available mount points
- I found no network configuration dialog. Ok the system was configured
through
the DHCP server of my ADSL router automatically, and this setup was ok
during installation. But I had to change the network to a fixed IP by hand
in the configuration files. The installer not even asked if I want to use
the
found DHCP server or if I want to setup my network manually.
- The first boot hangs more than one minute at "starting MTA". I already
worried a little bit about a potential systeme freeze... After I
configured my MTA (postfix) there were no more boot delayes.
That's it. If you have further questions please contact me.
Cheers
Martin Hans
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
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Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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