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Bug#224368: installation report: success with problems



Package: installation-reports
Version: 20031113

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: debian/dists/sid/main/installer-i386/20031113
uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-k7 #5 Sat Oct 4 14:11:12 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: Dec 7  2003
Method: Boot from floppies, packages from local network
        fetched from ftp.fi.debian.org
Machine: Home assembled PC 
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+  1800 MHz
Memory: 256 MB
Root Device: IDE
Root Size/partition table:  
        Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
        /dev/hda3               139999     93129     39641  71% /
        /dev/hda4             12246940   1454948  10169876  13% /usr

Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev
80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP
8x] (rev a4)

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [E]
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:
System does not have CD. Installer refused to believe this.

<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>

Network, sound, USB mouse, X with 2D graphics OK. 3D graphics succeeded
only with latest Nvidia drivers.  I have never seen old Quake3 related
bug as often!  Quake3 playable only with sound disabled. I'll test 2.6
kernel.



Installer made working lilo.conf.  It has only necessary lines and no
comments.  So I did 'liloconfig'.  It gave me well documented
lilo.conf. Unfortunately it didn't work. 
  1: It used /boot/sid.bmp but symlink was missing 
  2: It didn't have  "initrd=/initrd.img" line.
  3: there were boot=/dev/hda3 instead of boot=/dev/hda
     (Probably my mistake, I pressed enter to accept defaults without
     thinking.)
liloconfig should take old lilo.conf values as default values.


Old install boot disk (I have 3.0.23) is also an excellent rescue disk.
It has excellent help.

I failed to use new install floppy as a rescue disk.  Old one still
worked.


- Jukka



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