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Bug#230396: installation-reports bug report



Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: Beta 2. Downloaded Jan 30 2004 from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i486 unknown

Date: Friday, January 30, 2004.  10:00AM

Method: Booted off floppies.  Used the root, boot, and net.

Machine: IBM Valuepoint 100DX4
Processor: 486 DX4/100
Memory: 24MB
Root Device: 504MB IDE /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: <Feel free to paste the full partition
      table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.>
Output of lspci:

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [E]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:    [ ]
Mount partitions:       [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

Creating the floppies:

bootfloppy-image.img (boot)
floppy-image.img (root)
net_drivers-image.img (net drivers)

The root floppy has what I consider a vague name.
Also, the rawrite2.exe tool wouldn't read the image files from the hard drive because the filename was too long. I had to rename and shorten the image file names before I could create them under windows. Maybe this is more of a problem with rawrite, but I digress.

Configure Network HW:

I have a D-Link DE-220 ISA Card. The address/irq is 0x300, 11.
The detection failed (its not a PNP card).
Choosing the module 'ne' also failed, because it did not prompt me to enter the io port and irq.

I was able to get the card to work by using insmod with the correct io/irq from the command line.

Load installer modules:

Some of the mirrors listed (I tried 2 in canada) don't have the installer files. (At least thats whats returned in the error message)

While downloading files from the mirror, suddenly the installer quits to a console screen with the message "Terminated" repeating over and again once every few seconds.

This is as far as I got. I tried again a few times but invariably I end up with this "Terminated" stuff. Looks like I'm running out of memory. If I cat meminfo again and again between "terminated" messages, I can see the last free bit of memory get sucked up and then- POOF: Terminated.

Hope this report helps. Any chance on getting the new installer to fit inside 24MB of RAM?

Chris Leigh
Assistant LAN Admin
Faculty of Architecture
University of Manitoba




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