Bug#220640: d-i on Ultra sparc 5
Package: debian-installer
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: self compiled CVS version 13 november 2003
uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.21-sparc64-udeb #2 Thu Aug 7 21:50:19 EDT 2003 sparc64 unknown
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:34:41 +0100
Method: "boot net"
Machine: Sun Ultra 5
Processor: UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz
Memory: 128Mo
Root Device:
Root Size/partition table:
Output of lspci: /bin/sh: lspci: not found
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O] (with problems next, see below)
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The NEWT debconf frontend had a blue cursor on blue background.
Due to that, it was impossible to complete the installation; we could
not see the cursor. We could see which buttons were active, though.
When we opened a shell on tty2, the keyboard appeared to have
strange behaviour: only after every 4 keystrokes, you did get feedback.
e.g. type one, two, three, nothing appears, type four and you see
1234
Error in the keyboard buffer? Wrong driver?
The installation did successfully perform a dhcp request. However, it
was unable to make a connection to any Debian mirror, so we could
not continue. There were too little utilities present to test more;
no ping, only ifconfig.
Leaving now the Sun hardware, maybe next week more.
Pieter-Paul Spiertz & Geert Stappers
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