Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: Debian-Installer beta 3 uname -a: Linux gingko 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Mar 23 14:04:26 EST 2004 Method: 100MB netinst + base cd iso Machine: Dell Optiplex GX240 Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz Memory: 1 GB Root Device: IDE - hda5 Root Size/partition table: (output of df and cat /proc/partitions below) Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 459143 73044 361602 17% / /dev/hda1 97826 9237 83370 10% /boot /dev/hda2 35941928 20925444 13190700 62% /home /dev/hda9 12365340 1321660 10415544 12% /usr /dev/hda3 23963956 17089616 5657016 76% /usr/local /dev/hda8 233335 4133 216754 2% /tmp /dev/hda7 2403496 133072 2148332 6% /var tmpfs 452692 0 452692 0% /dev/shm major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 3 0 78177792 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 8471 38220 177502 36560 1873 3889 31656 31630 -2 667790 41671732 3 1 104391 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 23 551 1148 660 8 1 18 70 0 570 730 3 2 36515745 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 163 107 1794 2290 185 390 4592 1050 0 2450 3340 3 3 24346507 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 22 56 258 180 17 7 168 110 0 290 290 3 4 1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 489951 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 5190 26576 63532 11050 515 1749 4634 11780 0 11100 22830 3 6 1461883 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 1 0 8 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20 3 7 2441848 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 181 128 2106 1830 789 1250 16328 12700 0 3360 14530 3 8 248976 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 29 34 126 130 64 85 300 3830 0 900 3960 3 9 12562798 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 2856 10750 108482 20320 295 407 5616 2090 0 17550 22410 Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 12) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12) 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12) 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 12) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF 02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) 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: [E] Create file systems: [E] Mount partitions: [E] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: great job! first i'll address the E's i listed above: this system was previously running red hat 9, and once i finally pried it away from the previous owner, i immediately popped in the sarge installer. i had two previously existing partitions that i wanted to preserve during the install, /home and /usr/local, which are hda2 and hda3 respectively. so, i deleted all the other partitions, tried to resize hda3 a little larger but changed my mind and hit cancel (in case it's significant), created the new partitions, and chose "write changes to disk". i was then prompted with the following error, twice: Not Yet Implemented! This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout. Parted can't resize this (yet). i was a little confused because i wasn't trying to resize any partitions, perhaps my mucking with resizing options left some variable set that should have been unset? also, both hda2 and hda3 are ext3, though i don't imagine that makes much of a difference. anyway, it didn't prevent the rest of the installation from continuing, and for the most part it went without a hitch. however, upon rebooting, i noticed that /usr/local wasn't mounted. some testing revealed that this was because /usr/local was listed before /usr in /etc/fstab, so i'm guessing the call to mount failed because the mountpoint /usr/local did not yet exist since /usr wasn't yet mounted. it'd probably be a good idea for the script that generates fstab to do some kind of sorting, placing the 1-level-deep mount points before the 2-level-deep mountpoints and so on -- or maybe patch mountall.sh/mount to procede in that order. i imagine this would also have been a problem if i had set up a /var/log which was placed before /var etc. the /usr/local thing was the only serious hitch that i encountered. the rest of this report is more general impressions / nitpicking: - when selecting mountpoints, it'd be nice if previously selected mountpoints shouldn't show up in the list of optional mountpoints. that is, if i've already selected hda5 to be /usr, /usr shouldn't show up as an option when i'm editing hda6. - it'd be nice if when you select "format this partition" that the filesystem type defaults to something reasonable, like ext3 (which i imagine would be the choice most of the time anyway) - when specifying partition size, it'd be nice if default value was blanked out when the user typed in a size. that is, if it says partition size: 17.4 GB and i type 200 MB, it'd be nice if it automatically blanked out the previously existing input. i'm guessing that this probably isn't possible and is more a limitation of the menu system being used for the installer... feel free to ignore/scoff-at this one. - an "experts only" option to use cfdisk/fdisk would be nice, though of course nothing would keep me from c-a-f2'ing to a shell and doing that myself (by the way, thanks much for arrows and tab completion in the installer shell!). now that i think about it, if i did do the latter, would i have to get the installer to somehow refresh it's partition information? - the partition symbols are a bit confusing, allbeit really cute. perhaps room could be made in the page for a key of some sort? or perhaps a "help" option could be added to the bottom of the menu which would take the user to a page with a key and some other helpful information? - a bootsplash would be nice for the default grub install. - it'd be nice if you could remove pcmcia stuff on non-pcmcia systems like in the woody installer - that's it! i'll be getting some ultrasparc's in the coming weeks, and i'll give them a try -- though i notice there's only the 30MB iso for that. any reason why? anyway, once more, great job with the installer. if i can provide any more information or assistance, let me know. sean
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