Bug#237843: Package: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso beta-2, built on
2004.01.03, from gluck.debian.org
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Date: Morning of 13 March 2004
Method: Downloaded & Burned beta-2 ISO, booted from CD, then network
install from <> through a local OpenBSD router.
<How did you install? What did you boot off? If network install, from
where? Proxied?>
Machine: NEC Versa LX
Processor: 233 MHz Pentium II w/MMX
Memory: 64 MB
Root Device: IDE Toshiba MK6014MAP / 6 GB
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: [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:
My Xircom Cardbus 56k Modem/10-100 Ethernet card combo [rbem56g-100] to
autodetect using its module -- xirc2ps_cs. After the reboot, I had to
jet
out to a normal console, modprobe the yenta_socket module to get the NEC
Versa LX's Ricoh rl5c478 cardbus hardware to detect & configure, and
then I could
modprobe the Xircom module. After that DHCP worked fine and the rest of
the install went without a hitch; I'd have been lost if I didn't know
anything about linux though. Maybe something can be done about
detecting the Versa LX's cardbus hardware automatically?
Overally, seems to be a linux hardware support issue and not a Debian
installer issue. The installer is great and seems to work very well. I
was very pleased.
Peace,
Fred
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Frederick A. Sienkiewicz
Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Trumpet, Music, Computer Science
http://www.fred-sienkiewicz.org
fred@fred-sienkiewicz.org
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