Bug#234240: installation report bugs
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: got the 21/02/2004 on debian.org site - file sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux chewbaka 2.4.22-1-386 ... i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 21/02/2004 1,5 hour
Method: I've burned the image on a cd and booted from it. I've a second who's running
on windows, i configured on this second machine a connexion share with windows utils
and debian installer found an adress form this machine by DHCP.
Machine: assembled machine
Processor: AMD athlon 700MHZ
Memory:256 mb
Root Device: IDE HD 10 Go
Root Size/partition table: root partition ext3 9,5gb
swap partition 500Mb
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] System Controller (rev 25)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-751 [Irongate] AGP Bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ISA (rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 03)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] ACPI (rev 03)
00:07.4 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] USB (rev 06)
00:09.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 02)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2)
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:
First, i think it would be great to activate by default the num-lock touch because
there are no reasons to don't do it and it's pratical.
During the network configuration, i have two network cards and their names weren't
visible during the detection, i just got : eth0:10/100 MB ethernet card and the
same for eth1. I use only one of my network card so i changed of console and
type "dmesg" to see the name of the one on eth0 and one on eth1, i think it
would be good to print described names of network devices.
HD partitionning, in hd detection,it would be good to print the hdX name of hard drives(for users used to linux)
+primary-secondary master/slave(people used to windows) in addition of their types(IBM,maxtor...),indeed, when you are
used to use linux you know well the hda/hdb names of your devices.
cf-disk isn't traduced and is not very user friendly.
LILO boot loader installation,
i lost myself with the nomenclature /dev/ide/host0/....., i'm not familiar
at all with that(however i've a good known in linux) but much more with hda1, hdb2... notations.
So finally i installed lilo on the bad HD and i've to restart the installation.
I suggest to change that notations and replace it by hda/hdb notation +primary master...
During base-config, i got a bug, i configured the time (europe,paris) then the packages sources
on the net then, after the question:add another source to apt? i answered no i was got back
to the choice of time and so on... Finally i've to make cancel to exit this menu.
That's all, in all cases, it's already a very good job :-), keep on!
alexandre
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