Bug#229895: Package: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Beta 2 on 2004-01-23
sarge-i386-netinst.iso from
http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2/
vmlinuz from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images
hd-media-initrd.gz from
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images
uname -a: Linux colossus 2.4.24csc #1 Sat Jan 24 03:56:05 PST 2004
i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-01-23
Method: I read http://d-i.pascal.at/, then installed from a Windows
98 FAT32
partition by downloading the CD image, kernel and initrd files,
downloading a
recent copy of LOADLIN.EXE, renaming the files to fit in 8.3, booting
to DOS,
and running the following batch file:
@REM initrd.gz = hd-media-initrd.gz
@REM cdimage.iso = sarge-i386-netinst.iso
@REM vmlinuz = vmlinuz
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0
init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
Machine: Home built from parts. Nvidia Nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset, ECS
Motherboard
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
Memory: 512MB PC2700 DDR333 (single DIMM)
Root Device: 80GB ATA HD
Root Size/partition table:
major minor #blocks name
22 0 10022040 hdc
22 1 19624 hdc1 Ext2 /boot for my last two Debian
installs, but not this one
22 2 499968 hdc2 swap
22 3 1 hdc3 Extended partition containing hdc5
22 4 5502168 hdc4 ReiserFS / in my last Debian install
22 5 4000216 hdc5 FAT32 logical partition
3 0 78150744 hda
3 1 4883728 hda1 FAT32 Win98 system
3 2 1 hda2
3 5 4883728 hda5 Ext2 / in this Debian install
3 6 68380641 hda6 FAT32 Win98 data
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1
(rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4
(rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3
(rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2
(rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5
(rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge
(rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown
device 4152
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4172
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
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:
Couldn't install from the network because the "forcedeth"
reverse-engineered driver
for the Nforce integrated Ethernet controller isn't in the installer
kernel yet.
I read the Debian Kernel compilation instructions at
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html, downloaded
the
necessary .debs from packages.debian.org in Windows, went back and
forth between
Linux and Windows a few times to get all the missing package
dependencies,
put in the forcedeth 2.4 patch from
http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linux/patches/forcedeth/,
configured and compiled the kernel, and the driver worked! Except
since it isn't an
official driver, modprobe doesn't seem to see it, so I used insmod.
And since the
network configuration wizard hadn't run during the installation
process, I figured
out /etc/network/interfaces from its man page. Then ping worked by
address, but not
by domain name. I eventually worked out that I had to create
/etc/resolv.conf.
Finally, the Internet was accessible! From there, it was just apt-get
install foo
bar baz.
Phew.
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