Bug#246357: newbie installation report
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso dated 20040427
Uname -a: 2.4.25-1-386
Date: Wed Apr 28 12:38:24 CEST 2004
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Booted vom netinstal cd-rom installed the rest of the system from a local
mirror, not proxied
Machine: Selfbuilded Pentium II with 2 SCSI drives
Processor: Pentium II (Deschutes), 449.243 MHz
Memory: 256M
Root Device: 2 IBM DDRS-34560W SCSI harddrives, connectet to a aic7880 SCSI
host controller
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/sda1 * 1 486 3903763+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 487 555 554242+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb1 1 486 3903763+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 487 555 554242+ 83 Linux
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
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)
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 2 (rev 02)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-Combo [Etherlink XL Combo] (rev 04)
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI] (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 01)
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.0 Class 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 Class 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 Class 0400: 121a:0002 (rev 02)
0000:00:09.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9005 (rev 04)
0000:00:0a.0 Class 0401: 1274:5000 (rev 01)
0000:00:0c.0 Class 0100: 9004:8078 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 102b:0521 (rev 01)
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:
Here is an other "watch a newbie install Debian and take some notes" report:
* After selecting german locales, the "Umlaute" (äöü���) in the title-line of
the select keyboard layout didn't displayed corectly, looked like a utf8
Problem?
* The testperson choosed manual partition (Partitionstabelle von Hand angeben),
since neither of the two "use full disc SCSI X" optiones fited in his plans
of using both discs.
He knew, that he would need to create a swap partition, but didn't found it
the menu. Since the "access method" (Zugriffsmethode) of the newly created
partition was set to "formate partition" (Partition formatieren), he didn't
found the sawp-filesystem in the filesystem menu.
It took him some time to find out, that he needed to change the "access
method" to "use as swap" (Partition als Swap-Speicher benutzen). (actually:
It confused me, too).
I'm not sure, if it is a bug, or an User error, but if you look at the
partition table, you see that all partitions are of type 83, allthoug sda2
and sdb2, the swap partitions, should habe type 82, shouldn't they?
* The testpersonen selected only the task "Desktop Environment" (or at least: I
didn't see him selecting anything else, but was a little bit distracted at
this point). I wonder why libc6-dev, gcc, g++ and such stuff got installed.
* While installing all the packages, an error occured (I didn't see it long
enough, since it got overwriten by a blue/red error screen). I think it a KDE
file was in two different packages - this problem seems to be coused by KDE
3.2.2 packages going to testing, while most are still on 3.1.5. However: This
error dropped him back to the debian-installer main menu.
Before the testperson startet the installation, I told him "if you are
unsure, press enter", and so he did, continuing the instalaltion of the
packages. After he choosed "install packages" in the main menu several times,
he got it, but he was I think the debconf prioritie has been changed after
the first problem, since he got asked much more questions than usal.
However, he worked it out and got it installed.
* During all the apt-get activitie, he wished to see, how much to do was left.
Some Kind of progress bar, or a small "installing Package x of 614" would be
nice.
Yours sincerely,
Alexander Schmehl
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