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Bug#228316: Successful Sarge beta2 installation



Package: installation-reports
Version: i386-beta2

I used the sarge-i386-netinst.iso, booted with just a carriage return at the 
boot: prompt.

Very nice! I was unable to boot beta1 on my test system, so this was a VERY 
substantial improvement. The system info is:

Motherboard: Soltek SL-75DRV5; it has a Phoenix BIOS, VIA KT333 and VT8233A 
north/southbridges, a VIA VT1611A audio chip, AMD XP 1700+ CPU,
128Mb DDR RAM.

VIdeo: NVidia RIVA TNT2

NIC: Netgear FA-310TX

2 IDE disks; the install was on /dev/hda5 with swap on /dev/hda7. This disk 
had four installed OSs on it, selected via Red Hat 7.3 GRUB; this was 
replacing the one on the 5Gb hda5 partition. Ext3 was selected as the 
filesystem. Packages were selected via tasksel.


Audio, video and networking were all detected and configured correctly. It 
looked almost like a Knoppix install in this regard; I was impressed. I liked 
the way the DHCP detection was handled - reasonably short timeout and with a 
good message when a server wasn't found.


I'm sorry that this isn't the correct format for an install report; the 
INSTALLATION-HOWTO says there should be a file /root/install-report.template, 
but I was unable to find this file anywhere on the installed system. I 
suggest putting a link to an online copy of the file in section 4 of the 
HOWTO.


Miscellaneous comments:

I second the lilo-installer report #218741. Wow. For folks new to Linux, 
/dev/hd# is different enough, but those devfs names; Bleah. Without some 
online help, that format is a non-starter. I'll do the install again and see 
if the Grub install has the same problem.


- Don





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