JFYI this installation report we received from Simon Richter. It lists a few issues with the Sarge installer, but I have no idea what their relevance is for the current installer. I've closed the report, but if m68k porters want to follow up on it, feel free to reopen and reassign. Cheers, FJP ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Package: installation-reports Severity: normal INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Sarge official m68k CD uname -a: Linux nacho 2.4.27-amiga #1 Tue Aug 30 12:35:11 CEST 2005 m68k GNU/Linux Date: 2008-01-11 Method: Booted with StartInstall_clgen, slightly modified (added bootloader option to pass a different memory map to the kernel as one of my memory expansion cards does not work properly under Linux, and booted into init=/bin/sh to set up a swap partition before going into the installer. Machine: Amiga 2000 Processor: 68040, running at 33 MHz Memory: 16MiB on the CPU card, 6 MiB as Z2 RAM (currently unused), 1MiB CHIP RAM Root Device: SCSI disk, 2 GB Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/sda: 3 heads, 171 sectors, 8239 cylinders, RDB: 0 Logical Cylinders from 2 to 8238, 262656 bytes/Cylinder Device Boot Mount Begin End Size Pri BBlks System /dev/sda1 * * 2 514 131584 0 0 Amiga FFS Int. /dev/sda2 515 1026 131328 0 0 Linux swap /dev/sda3 * 1027 2050 262656 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda4 2051 6146 1050624 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda5 6147 6658 131328 0 0 Linux native /dev/sda6 6659 8238 405270 0 0 Linux native Output of lszorro: 00: 07e1:0b:30 Great Valley Products GForce 040 [Accelerator and SCSI Host Adapter] 01: 07e1:ff:00 Great Valley Products GForce 040 [Accelerator] 02: 0877:0b:00 Village Tronic Picasso II/II+ RAM [Graphics Card] 03: 0877:0c:00 Village Tronic Picasso II/II+ [Graphics Card] 04: 03f2:03:00 Microbotics 8-Up (Rev A) [RAM Expansion] 05: 03f2:04:00 Microbotics 8-Up (Rev Z) [RAM Expansion] 06: 0877:c9:00 Village Tronic Ariadne [Ethernet Card and Parallel Ports] Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [E] Ran out of memory, I had to reduce the ramdisk_size parameter and set up a swap device before I could start the installer Configure network HW: [O] Autodetection did not work, I had to manually select the appropriate kernel module Config network: [E] Worked in the first attempt, but failed during the real installation run. Detect CD: [O] 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: [-] There is no standard boot loader that can be installed from within Linux. Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: Went really well for an installation on a system with only 16 MiB of (usable) RAM. It might be worthwhile to have a way of setting up some swap device before starting the full installer, so this can be done without any init=/bin/sh trick. -------------------------------------------------------
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