Bug#237320: Acknowledgement (installation-report 3)
Some follow up to the Debian-installer-version: 06-Mar-2004 report.
Then a swap file and it run OK, kernel upload also OK (2.4.25).
GRUB OK, but after the rebott the machine reboots
after it prints something about initrd (~5 lines of messages, total).
Will try with a rescue floppy now.
My error. I chose 2.4.25-k7 by habit (this is Pentium machine).
So the rescue floppy didn't work either.
On another install from scrach (06-Mar-2004, as well)
I chose 2.4.25-i386 and everything went well.
I was afraid of -i586tcs, because I didn't know if
my Pentium fits -i586tcs or -i586 (no such kernel)
and I didn't want to risk another full install.
Perhaps only the kernels compiled for the correct processor
(and i-386 for a safe choice) should be displayed?
When I first booted up, the hotplug package immediately
ate one third of my memory and didn't want to swap out.
In the effect the most memory dpkg could gather was around 12M.
Much trashing. :>
After removing hotplug, some other trash and recompiling the kernel.
I got about 10M extra but dpkg still swaps a lot with those 22M grabbed
(the measurements on 2.6.3).
I chose polish language, country, keyboard, etc.
in the installer, and the installer messages were mostly
in Polish. However rarely, the Polish tests were probably displayed
in latin-1, instead of latin-2 fonts, and instead of the polish
accented letters there were strange signs. I remember a case
or two when a text in the window was correct, but the choices
you could highliht by scrolling had wrong polish letters.
I was a bit dissapointed, when the system booted and no effect
of the localization was visible, apart of the good default
for the timezone package. I got polish locales only after
I manually reconfigured the locales package.
Even after reconfiguring all the packages (that was long)
there is no polish font on the console, so the polish letters
are mangled.
Also, the debconf question priority has not been set to low,
as was the default in the installer, and as I had manually chosen
in the installer, to be sure. The question priority was middle,
and this was a problem, forcing me to reconfigure all the packages
when I noticed I get no enough control (for 32M with Polish locales
and big amitions you need some more control;).
I checked the bootstrap_settings in /root/
and they confirm "PL" locales, and "low" debonf setting.
At last something about the machine, just after the first boot.
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I] (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] (rev 02)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c325 [ViRGE] (rev 02)
uname:
Linux debian 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
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