Bug#244205: sarge
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: netinstall beta3 from www.debian.org
uname -a: Linux amigo 2.4.25-1-386 #1
Date: Right now, 2004/04/17
Method: From a CD/RW with the 109MB netinst package, at this moment
downloading the rest via FTP.
Machine: Old home-built box
Processor: PII 350
Memory: 192MB
Root Device: 40GB IBM IDE drive, but there is an ADAPTEC7890 SCSI drive with a
few partitions as well.
Root Size/partition table:
hda1: windows fat 1G
hda2: extended
hda5: swap 256M
hda6: / 256M ReiserFS, formatted by sarge
hda7: /usr/local 5.3G, kept old ext3
hda8: /usr 3.4G ReiserFS, formatted by sarge
hda9: /data 28G, kept old ext3
sda1: windows fat 800M
sda2: extended
sda5: windows fat 1.8G
sda6: swap 256M
sda7: /mnt/iso 1.7G, kept old ext3
Output of lspci:
works fine, but I don't feel like typing it verbatim...
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,manual]
Create file systems: [ o]
Mount partitions: [ o]
Install base system: [ o]
Install boot loader: [ o]
Reboot: [ e]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Two issues so far:
- on the reboot, the SCSI disk was not found at the time all filesystems
were checked and mounted, because the adaptec module did not load yet. A
simple mount -a after a continue did work fine. I am not sure how to solve
that in a more final way yet.
- the rest of the installation complained that the installation of some
packages failed. In effect, nothing was installed. After some tries I could
just make out that /var/cache was not big enough to receive the selected
packages for installation. I managed to solve that by relocating /var/cache
to /data/var/cache, but I think this should be noted earlier, or solved more
gracefully by looking for another place to put these temporary files if /var
is on a too-small root.
Fabulous tool! I am sure this installation set will make debian/gnu a winner!
Regards,
Rob Hooft
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