instalation report
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: NetInst Snapshot i386 20040401
uname -a:
Linux sarge 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Method: NetInst image - normal instalation (not expert mode) installed
from ftp.at.debian.org ; not proxied
Machine: Homegrown - real system (not wmvare)
Processor: AMD Duron 750MHz Abit kt7a motherboard
Memory: 256 MB SDRAM
Root Device: IDE
Root Size/partition table: <Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.>
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 16)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 40)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT86C100A [Rhine]
(rev 06)
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX
440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)
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: [x]
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:
Everything went preety smooth...
A few comments(C), wishes(W) and sugestions(S):
W,S:At the nameserver dialog box there should be a mention of DNS along
with the nameserver, as most Bob users would rather now (heard) about
DNS server.
C: grub - still the window under the current one is visible (ugly) -
just a reminder
W: other OS-es detection (still unavailable?) hint: SuSE detects quite
well windows installs, but doesn't have an option to insert other linux
instalations - di doesn't habe this also, and this sux (had to modify
the grub menu.lst file by hand afterwards to boot into my woody
instalation)
W,S: in second stage installer the button positions are reversed (should
not); I was really confused about this... - I think the fix is
trivial...
C,S,W: after the root password dialog the default user dialog appears
without ANY info, so the regular Bod user might be confused by this (I
surely was, and I am not a beginner in using Linux). There should be
some short info about the default user just enough to make it clear that
is a regular user, and this info is not related to the root user.
W: Please use locale info to automatically select (not to pass over the
dialog) a mirror; I am from Romania, so the "by default" selection
should be ftp.ro.debian.org and shuld allow me to change this ;) . OTOH,
selecting ftp.ro.debian.org resulted in the hanging of the installer
(other tty available) - maybe the site was unavaliable (didn't check)???
PS: I will send another mail with more comments about the di (expert
mode and some other things).
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