Installation Report
Hello folks,
the new installer is a truely amazing piece of software, Thanks!
I tried a fairly new image but failed, see below.
Cheers,
Erich
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INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
24-Dec-2003 netinst.iso from
http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/
~/tmp 95 > md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso
4aebe03b212df62024c33575922b1b50 sarge-i386-netinst.iso
~/tmp 96 > grep netinst sarge-MD5SUMS.txt
4aebe03b212df62024c33575922b1b50 sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a:
Date:
27.Dec.2003
Method:
net DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
Machine:
Processor:
AMD K6 / 200 MHz
Memory:
320 MB
Root Device:
SCSI /dev/discs/disc1/part3
Root Size/partition table:
2 GB
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:14.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c860 (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
initial boot worked ok on CDROM which did have the described problems with
earlier images!
Boot:
net DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
Yes, I would like to have an "expert" switch, too :-)
choose mirror ...
proxy = http://192.168.1.42:80/apt-cacher/
will not work for installer download, but would be nice.
Detect Harddrives:
ide-detect successful, loads ide-disk, and hw-detection will produce an
error while loading ide-disk --- again --- but everything will work
Load installer modules:
marking lvmcfg and md-tools ok,
however, I would need raidtools as well. There is a raidtools2-udeb on
the CD image, however, I have not succeeded to install that.
I can write /etc/raidtab myself, but without mkraid, raidstart, ... at my
fingers, this is of no use. :-(
mounting partitions:
loads jfs modules, but does not show in list (ext2 ext3 reiserfs)
also loads xfs module, but fails.
see last point, since I could not convince the installer system to
make a md raid or two, 1 for boot, 1 for lvm based everything else.
resorting to a 2 GB ext3 partition, /dev/sda3's equivalent to continue
installing base system:
FAILS IMMEDIATELY with
"Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-386/Packages."
find /target
...
/target/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_Release.malformed
which does, however, look innocent to my eyes.
nothing in /target/var/log/debootstrap.*
lots of messages on vc/4, but cannot get up to start of this problem
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