Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso from nov 19th Method: CD install in vmware Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure keyboard: [E] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [?] 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: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: My iso has kdb-chooser 0.34 on it, and after I chose the default US English locale, it decided I should have a dvorak keyboard. I don't know what kbd-chooser's fascination with dvorak is, but it's never a good default, and this has been reported several times IIRC. Network config found my card, but did not get a dhcp lease from vmware. Probably a problem with my vmware, but this let me experience the oh-so-pleasant path of dhcp failing after a long timeout, and main-menu running it again and again when I piced unrelated items like cdrom-detect (or perhaps rather, increasing debconf priority and re-selecting the failing netcfg-dhcp, after cdrom-detect succeeds). Manual network config succeeded, modulo dvorak keyboard which I had to go back and switch to qwerty first. Before installing debs from the CD it displayed a new progress bar as it checked the size of each udeb. I'm not sure what this was (not cdrom-checker), and it should be a bit clearer what it's doing there. If you pick go back from the final message displayed before reboot, main-menu autoselects the debconf priority selector. It should instead drop back to the main menu I'd think. Just for kicks I tried running baseconfig-udeb from the menu. After asking if I was sure I wanted to, it apparently did nothing. I didn't see base-config until after rebooting. During boot of the debian system, I noticed it displayed a little warning about /etc/mtab: No such file or directory. Perhaps we should create a blank one. After boot I experienced the usual problems with reiserfs tools not being installed and so unable to check my root filesystem, and with nothing loading the ide modules to let the second stage see my ide cdrom. Also, discover tries to load a parport_pc module on boot, this fails with the error, "init_module: Device or resource busy". The parport module is successfully loaded however. Looking through the logs in /var/log/debian-installer, the hardware-summary looks useful. Pity the install-report.template does not refer to it. However, report-hw is unable to run hdparm, since it is not available in /target or the d-i ramdisk. package-versions would also be a useful thing to have included in installation reports. -- see shy jo
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