Bug#237269: Installation Success
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: daily for March 9
uname -a: Linux crowley 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
Date: March 9 & 10
Method: Full installer cdrom, network though cable modem (via wireless
network (Orinoco goldcard)).
Machine: Older IBM thinkpad (iSeries 1400/1500) with chinese keyboard.
Processor: Pentium MMX 120Mhz
Memory: 128 Mb
Root Device: IDE hard disk
Root Size/partition table:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 191 1534176 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 192 592 3221032+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 192 227 289138+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 228 592 2931831 83 Linux
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1531 [Aladdin IV] (rev b3)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (rev 0a)
00:05.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6832/6833 Cardbus Controller (rev 34)
00:05.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6832/6833 Cardbus Controller (rev 34)
00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] (rev 01)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev 20)
00:0c.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU (rev 09)
00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
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]
Comments/Problems:
Yet another successful i386 install(s).
I installed the first time in en_us.
I also installed in Chinese (zh/Chinese), Russian (ru/whatever the
default was) and Korean (ko_something, whatever the first one was)
localizations.
They worked, except Korean which seemed to lock up during the first
hardware detection. en_US did this in one of the installs too, so it
might be flakey/weird hardware. It crashes or something (completely
unresponsive) right after "Skipping Unvailable Module 'ide-floppy'..."
(I don't actually speak any of those languages, I just find it amusing
to see the Chinese, cyrillic and hangul writing in "text mode").
If I try to change the filesystem types in Partman, (eg, setting /home
to XFS), it fails to create the swap partition (Failed to Mount swap
partition IDE master, partition #5 on none). If I have it
autopartition again and accept the defaults, it works.
One major annoyance is that it didn't setup my network card so it'd
work automatically when I rebooted; it seems as though this is because
I have a 'yenta_socket' PCIC, rather than the i8xxxx one, so pcmcia-cs
fails to start, and thus the network fails to come up (alouthgh of
course it worked in the installer and installed over the network). I
have to edit /etc/defaults/pcmcia to set the PCIC to yenta_socket, and
then edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts to turn on DHCP, and everything
works.
Another weird thing is that in the non-US locales (ru), after the reboot,
the text came out as graphic line characters rather than the nice
cyrillic. It doesn't seem like it truely went into the fb mode, rather
stayed in text mode. Weirdness.
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