Bug#226777: installation-reports: INSTALL REPORT
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version:
http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/\
sarge-i386-netinst.iso 07-Jan-2004 15:46 107M
uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.22-1-686 #6 Sat Oct 4 14:09:08 EST 2003 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: Thu Jan 8 21:51:39 EST 2004
Method: Boot off netinst CD with base packages. apt-get/aptitude for
additional
packages off Debian mirror.
Machine: Acer TravelMate 650
Processor: Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.40GHz
Memory: 527593472
Root Device: IDE /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /var type ext3 (rw)
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host
Bridge (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge
(rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility
M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev
01)
02:04.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3872
(rev 01)
02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7113 (rev 20)
02:06.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7113 (rev 20)
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
02:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
02:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
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: [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:
1. No wireless detected:
I have a wireless card built in on this laptop. It wasn't detected. I
installed
the hostap modules afterwards and it works fine.
Details of card from lspci:
02:04.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3872
(rev 01)
2. No LinuxOld kernel in lilo.conf
The /etc/lilo.conf file is pretty sparse. The main thing that I didn't
like is
that there's no timeout to choose between kernels. There isn't even an
option
to boot a different kernel even if a timeout was present.
I also note that Debian Woody usually has a LinuxOld stanza in the
lilo.conf
file which wasn't present. I suspect that's normally there right from
the
install, but my memory is a bit hazy and it may be added later by
something
else.
In any event, I installed a new kernel which didn't modify lilo.conf in
any way
so I suspect the LinuxOld stanza is there from the start. I think this
is
pretty important in case your new kernel doesn't boot. As it stands,
with a
default install of with the new installer, when you upgrade your kernel
there's
no fallback option to your old kernel as there was in the past.
Of course I can edit lilo.conf to add what I'd like (which I've done),
but I
think the default lilo.conf should at least include the LinuxOld option.
I see lilo.conf is installed mode 644 rather than 600 as it was in the
past.
Is this a security problem?
3. Problems selecting packages
When I added apt sources, there was a problem retrieving packages. No
errors
showed up - I just had no packages available! When I jumped over to a
shell
and ran apt-get update manually, I saw the errors (HTTP 403 Forbidden).
This
was using the mirror "ftp.au.debian.org", which is a CNAME for
"ftp.planetmirror.com". The problem may have been a misconfiguration on
planetmirror (it's happened often enough in the past). The issue here
was that
the installer didn't tell me there was an error, it just dropped back to
the
menu for choosing apt sources.
I tried the option to manually edit sources.list myself, but for some
reason
nano turned my # characters into pound (as in the UK currency)
characters.
So, back to the shell again where I used vi to edit sources.list,
entering in
my local apt-cache archive - which I should have done in the first
place, but
then I wouldn't have spotted this problem :P I ran apt-get update and
everything was okay and I continued the install process.
Otherwise, the install was a breeze. I was suprised by how much was set
up for
me and good a job the installer did detecting my hardware.
Cheers,
Paul Bryan.
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