Bug#249164: installation report on DECstation (mipsel)
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Beta 4 for subarchitecture r4k-kn04
uname -a:
Date: 2004/05/12
Method: netboot-install via tftp
Machine: DECstation 5000/150, using framebuffer console (on PMAGB-B)
Processor: R4000SC
Memory: 128MB
Root Device: SCSI disk
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Keyboard selection: [E] Kbd-Chooser only presents PC keymaps by default.
Pressing ESC brings one back to the main menu.
On reselection of "choose keyboard" I get a menu
asking to choose between DEC, USB and AT
keyboards. Selecting "DEC" gives an error. The
log says: choose_keymap: keymap = US English
ERROR: cannot open file US English
I have not yet had time to look into this, but the
DEC US keymap is called "LK201-US", so there
might be a wrong string passed.
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O] works ok but needs quite a long time
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O] checking the package sizes takes _very_ long
on a slow system (about 4 to 5 seconds per
package)
Install boot loader: [E] tries to install CoLo, the Cobalt Loader (wrong
subarchitecture)
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Rebooting into the second stage does not work, though. Instead of loading
the delo 2nd stage loader, the systems jumps back into the firmware prompt.
I have bootet over the network to get the system up again.
In configuring console-data (in German), Umlauts are displayed wrongly,
like encoded in UTF-8 but printed on a terminal in iso-latin-1. The rest
of base-config worked smoothly.
Regards,
Karsten
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