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Bug#267094: marked as done (d-i rc1 installation report)

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Debian-installer-version: rc1 (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc1/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso)
uname -a: Linux infopower 2.6.7-powerpc #1 Thu Aug 5 23:48:59 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-08- 
Method: CD installation (booted from CD)

Machine: Apple PowerMac (newworld)
Processor: G4 (800MHz)
Memory: 1.5GB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda11
Root Size/partition table:

    # mac-fdisk -l
    /dev/hda
            #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
    /dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
    /dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap Apple_Bootstrap         1954 @ 1544      (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
    /dev/hda3          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                 54 @ 64        ( 27.0k)  Driver 4.3
    /dev/hda4          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                 74 @ 118       ( 37.0k)  Driver 4.3
    /dev/hda5        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                 54 @ 192       ( 27.0k)  Unknown
    /dev/hda6        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                 74 @ 246       ( 37.0k)  Unknown
    /dev/hda7          Apple_FWDriver Macintosh                200 @ 320       (100.0k)  Unknown
    /dev/hda8      Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                512 @ 520       (256.0k)  Unknown
    /dev/hda9           Apple_Patches Patch Partition          512 @ 1032      (256.0k)  Unknown
    /dev/hda10        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 1072265 @ 119028981 (523.6M)  Linux swap
    /dev/hda11        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 debian             119025483 @ 3498      ( 56.8G)  Linux native
    /dev/hda12              Apple_HFS dummy                   1954 @ 120101246 (977.0k)  HFS

    hda2 is where ybin installes the bootloader.
    hda11 is mounted on /.
    hda10 is used as swap.
    hda12 is to prevent OSX (on hdb2) from offering to clobber hda.

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
    $ lspci
    0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP
    0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
    0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 PCI
    0001:01:12.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03)
    0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03)
    0001:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
    0001:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
    0002:02:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 Internal PCI
    0002:02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323
    0002:02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01)

    $ lspci -n
    0000:00:0b.0 0600: 106b:002d
    0000:00:10.0 0300: 10de:0172 (rev a3)
    0001:01:0b.0 0600: 106b:002e
    0001:01:12.0 0100: 9004:5078 (rev 03)
    0001:01:17.0 ff00: 106b:0022 (rev 03)
    0001:01:18.0 0c03: 106b:0019
    0001:01:19.0 0c03: 106b:0019
    0002:02:0b.0 0600: 106b:002f
    0002:02:0e.0 0c00: 11c1:5811
    0002:02:0f.0 0200: 106b:0021 (rev 01)



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:     [E]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:

    The hardware designers for this machine neglected to build an
    eject button for the cdrom.  I had to boot OSX in order to open
    the cd tray and insert the installer cd.  =p  (not much debian can
    do about that!)

    The only major issue I encountered revolved around the aic7xxx
    module.  When the installer tried to load it, the kernel would
    partially crash.  After that no more modules could be loaded.
    Likewise when 'discover' and 'hotplug' tried to load that module
    during bootup.  I simply used expert mode to tell the installer
    not to load that module, addit it to hotplug's blacklist, and
    removed discover.  (IMO discover isn't terribly useful after
    installation because the hardware will almost never change, and
    hotplug will/should detect and load modules as needed)  The SCSI
    controller has no drives attached to it.  I wonder if that is why
    the aic7xxx module fails to work.  A friend of mine is running
    debian with his root partition on a SCSI disk using the aic7xxx
    module.

    The installer's partitioning GUI is rather decent.  It would be
    nice if it could create HFS partitions as well (see hda12 above).

    I liked seeing parted included in the installer.  I needed it when
    I went back to create the HFS partition so OSX would stop desiring
    to obliterate debian.

    mac-fdisk ought to not let the user create an invalid partition,
    or at least issue a warning.  The first time I created hda12 it
    was 500KB.  I had to go back and increase it becase an HFS
    filesystem can't be smaller than 800KB.  Also, mac-fdisk ought to
    present the user with some information about known fs type labels.
    I spent a while experimenting before I discovered that 'Apple-HFS'
    is the correct name, not 'hfs', 'HFS', or 'hfs+'.

    I am quite happy with the progress of the installer and don't
    consider any of the above issues (perhaps apart from the
    kernel/driver issue) to be critical.
    
-D

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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
against installation-reports.

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