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Bug#277936: marked as done (installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:44 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #277936
has caused the Debian Bug report #277936,
regarding installation-reports: don't force people to use partman if they've already installed everything BUT the bootloader
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: installation-reports
Version: daily snapshot 23 october
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff.
in-between the kernel oopsing and partman driving me fucking nuts, i had
errors from various mirrors until i grew a brain and used the main
mirror. all of the other ones i tried failed in some way or another.

after a certain point, the kernel would oops right when libc6 was being
unpacked; then i'd start getting segfaults from d-i installing various
packages. THEN it tells me "you can't have a separate /boot partition
with quik" WHICH IS PATENTLY FALSE:

/dev/sdb8 on / type xfs (rw)
[snip]
/dev/sdb7 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
[snip]

ls -l /boot
total 18071
[snip]
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   24513 2004-07-13 02:34 config-2.6.6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   24864 2004-09-15 17:31 config-2.6.8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   25591 2004-10-19 17:53 config-2.6.9
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 2004-10-21 12:10 first.b
[snip]
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 2004-10-18 13:17 first.b.preserved
drwxr-xr-x  2 root sys     1024 2004-08-28 18:01 instmnt
drwx------  2 root root   12288 2004-06-13 08:26 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 2003-12-01 09:54 old.b
[snip]
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     577 2004-09-20 07:04 quik.conf
[snip]

less /boot/quik.conf:
[snip]
default=linux
timeout=30
root=/dev/sdb8
partition=8
[snip]

ls -l /etc/quik.conf 
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 15 2004-06-14 08:47 /etc/quik.conf -> /boot/quik.conf

SINCE I AND OTHERS HAVE quik running happily in /boot.

i was forced to restart the installation several times, in between which i 
quickly realised that it DOES NOT "keep its place" in the process of
installing, uses devfs which only gets in the way, and since i'm forced
to use the floppies, i have no way to actually put the whole thing into
the semblance of a sois-disant expert mode.

the good news is after the many restarts and numerous problems, i was
able to install everything but quik. i rebooted the machine, hoping to
not have to go through the entire install again (which it seems i have
to, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T), so i can at least run an apt-get command to
install quik and configure it manually. 

i see this installer as a step backwards from woody or even potato -
where's the configurability and flexibility? we're forced into some
mould so that everything is homogeneous and vanilla? no thanks.

Debian-installer-version: october 23 2004, http://people.debian.org/luther/
uname -a: 2.4.27-powerpc-small 
Date: early morning of oct. 23
Method: How did you install? floppy
	 What did you boot off? floppy
     Proxied? no

Machine: Powertower Pro 200
Processor: PPC 603e
Memory: 192 MB
Root Device:  SCSI, /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: N/A

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
Bus 0: device 11 function 0
Host Bridge Apple Bandit host bridge (rev 3)
IRQ 22

Display Controller Integrated Micro Solutions IMS9128 (Twin Turbo 128)
IRQ 23

Liteon Communications LNE100TX

Grand Central I/O

AMI Megaraid 

Bus 1: Host Bridge Apple Bandit #2 host bridge

Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D AIC-7881U (rev 0)


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:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E/O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [E/O]
Install base system:    [E/O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [O]

Comments/Problems:

d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff.
in-between the kernel oopsing and partman driving me fucking nuts, i had
errors from various mirrors until i grew a brain and used the main
mirror. all of the other ones i tried failed in some way or another.

after a certain point, the kernel would oops right when libc6 was being
unpacked; then i'd start getting segfaults from d-i installing various
packages. THEN it tells me "you can't have a separate /boot partition
with quik" WHICH IS PATENTLY FALSE:

/dev/sdb8 on / type xfs (rw)
[snip]
/dev/sdb7 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
[snip]

ls -l /boot
total 18071
[snip]
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   24513 2004-07-13 02:34 config-2.6.6
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   24864 2004-09-15 17:31 config-2.6.8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   25591 2004-10-19 17:53 config-2.6.9
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 2004-10-21 12:10 first.b
[snip]
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 2004-10-18 13:17 first.b.preserved
drwxr-xr-x  2 root sys     1024 2004-08-28 18:01 instmnt
drwx------  2 root root   12288 2004-06-13 08:26 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1024 2003-12-01 09:54 old.b
[snip]
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     577 2004-09-20 07:04 quik.conf
[snip]

less /boot/quik.conf:
[snip]
default=linux
timeout=30
root=/dev/sdb8
partition=8
[snip]

ls -l /etc/quik.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 15 2004-06-14 08:47 /etc/quik.conf -> /boot/quik.conf

SINCE I AND OTHERS HAVE quik running happily in /boot.

i was forced to restart the installation several times, in between which i
quickly realised that it DOES NOT "keep its place" in the process of
installing, uses devfs which only gets in the way, and since i'm forced
to use the floppies, i have no way to actually put the whole thing into
the semblance of a sois-disant expert mode.

the good news is after the many restarts and numerous problems, i was
able to install everything but quik. i rebooted the machine, hoping to
not have to go through the entire install again (which it seems i have
to, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T), so i can at least run an apt-get command to
install quik and configure it manually.

i see this installer as a step backwards from woody or even potato -
where's the configurability and flexibility? we're forced into some
mould so that everything is homogeneous and vanilla? no thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1000, 'unstable'), (998, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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--- Begin Message --- 
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.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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