Bug#244259: Installation report i386 beta3: Success
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: beta3: sarge-i386-netinst.iso
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux aslan 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: Friday 16th april 2004, from 13:30 to 14:45 (CEST) (it went smoothly...)
Method: Booted netinst CD, wiped whole harddisk, had (to my surprise) a
proxyless connection to ftp.nl.debian.org
Machine: Dell optiplex, one of those older models
Processor: Pentium III 550MHz
Memory: 128MB, don't know more about it
Root Device: IDE harddisk
Root Size/partition table: As created by the installer:
aslan:/# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq
3 0 15007608 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 191301 742908 7473570 6305310 316772 2726037 24357784 17732494 -1 16686504 6130380
3 1 14506663 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 188396 731368 7358298 6063650 314786 2714652 24246616 17432884 0 3861700 23505084
3 2 1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 5 497983 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 2897 11500 115176 241510 1986 11385 111168 299610 0 216630 545700
aslan:/#
Output of lspci:
pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
0000:00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
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]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
- The LCD monitor (Compaq) blanked out after a few seconds of inactivity
when booted from CD, ctrl+F2 and back to F1 usually helped for a short
moment. Needed to be replaced with an old-fashioned CRT. This problem
was gone after the reboot. I heard this was previously also noticed
using a RedHat rescue CD, problem seems to only show up when booting
from CD, and not when booting from HD. I've no clue about causes...
- General: went VERY smoothly, everything I could dream of was
auto-detected, I was very delighted to notice I didn't have to spend
days on the X config for example. Great work people!
- ssh-client was not on the netinst, while ssh is sometimes required to fix
networking.
- X: it defaulted to not autodetect my mouse... why not?
- installing desktop task, gets you both kde and gnome, whith kde as default (I
choose GDM, and wasn't asked for kde/gnome. For desktop PC's, I can
imagine people want either KDE or Gnome, but not necessarily both...
- Idem for editors, I want the Debian OS, not the emacs OS... (okay, I
admit, this is nitpicking)
- apache2 was default, but apache2+php4 module = not working
- installing both php4 and php4-cgi, makes apache2 use the cgi version of php4.
- apt-get --purge remove apache2 gave warnings about files in /etc (I
didn't touch the config), apache2 remained running after apache2 was
gone. Installing apache (1.3) didn't make it start running)
- The php4 readme.debian had outdated info (and very unorganized) about how to
enable the php4 module in apache (you need to run modules-update apache
enable mod_php4), which should be done by postinst imho anyway (didn't
happen, don't know whether it's intentional).
- Installing php4-cgi installed in apache2 automatically... don't know whether
that's how it's supposed to work (php4 should be preferred if both are
available imho)
- Installing mysql popped up a huge note about upgrading issues... while
it was a clean install (debconf abuse)
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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