Bug#247751: marked as done (Display success message if DHCP succeeds)

To: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
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Subject: Bug#247751: marked as done (Display success message if DHCP succeeds)
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Package: installation-reports
Version: +N/A; reported 2004-04-22; d-i beta3 credit card ISO
Severity: normal

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: (see above && below)
uname -a:
Linux toad 2.4.25-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 24 12:07:16 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-04-19
Method: Sarge beta3 netinst ISO burned on a CD, then proceed to http install
	(using ftp.fi.debian.org, Debian testing, no proxy)
      install, from where?  Proxied?>

Machine: Dell GX270
Processor: dual Pentium 4 (in fact shows up as 4 processors, whee :-)
Memory: 1Gb
Root Device: hda1
Root Size/partition table: hda1 all except last 500Mb for swap
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [!]
Config network:         [!]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [!]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [!]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

I originally tried to install Woody but it would not even detect most
of the hardware, lspci just had a lot of "unknown blah blah" entries
instead of what you see above. I figured this would be a good time to
try the Sarge installer since presumably it would be better equipped
to deal with contemporary hardware. Generally, it worked quite nicely.

* Configure network HW: This went fine but after the reboot, it would
no longer know anything about the network card! I had to insmod e1000
by hand in order to proceed with the installation.

  wishlist item: when the installer detects hardware and gets it up
  and running, it sure would be nice if the required drivers would be
  installed permanently so that they are available after the next
  reboot also.

Also sound hardware was not correctly configured after a reboot, and
had to be added to /etc/modules by hand.

* Configure network: I'm on a network where DHCP is kind of slow,
and running on some sort of Windows server abomination. What's funny
is that if I switched over to the second virtual console and ran
dhcpclient, it would appear to work better. This could however also be
because I might have made some wrong assumptions when the DHCP client
in vt1 did in fact get a connection -- it went by so fast that I
thought it had just erroneously jumped to the next screen without
having gotten a DHCP lease. (This is something I've reconstructed
after the fact. This analysis might be wrong. I just know I bobbed
back and forth and eventually got through to where I did have a good
network connection with a DHCP-allocated IP address.)

  wishlist item: could there be a brief notification on the next
  screen where it asks for the host name, if/when it got a DHCP lease
  and in that case for which address? I don't know if this is really
  the right solution in usability terms but it would remove one
  ambiguity IMHO.

I noticed that dhclient runs on lo as well as eth0; is that useful
and/or done on purpose?

* Partition hard drives:

I have gotten into the habit of creating a minimal hda1 partition (as
small as cfdisk will allow on that particular disk; these days usually
4 or 8 Mb) and dd if=bf2.4/images-2.88/rescue.bin of=/dev/hda1 from
the Woody installation disks, just to have an easy rescue partition
for when (not if) I mess up the regular installation royally. I tried
to do that here as well, before I started the sarge installer.

I ended up thrashing back and forth in the partitioning dialogs for a
while because I would have liked to keep this setup but otherwise
proceed as normal, but in the end I gave up and simply put in a huge
single partition plus 500Mb swap at the end as suggested (or rather,
in practice, forced on me) by the installer.

I'll admit that I didn't consult the manual and didn't know exactly
what all the options in the partitioning dialog meant. I also tried
the LVM stuff because I've heard about it and would be interested to
know more, but backed out because it looked scary.

* Install base system:

I guess this must have been beaten to death, but displaying only
American time zones is something I find offensive.

  wishlist item: at least make "other" the preselected value since
  it's going to be correct for more users than any one time zone in
  America (let alone specifically the one which is preselected).

As indicated above, after reboot the network was unconfigured and I
had to enable it by hand before installation could proceed.

Ditto for sound, once I got that far, but that of course didn't harm
the installation itself.

I dropped into the shell on vt2 with alt-f2 and did modprobe e1000 and
ran dhclient by hand and then I could proceed with downloading
packages etc.

I upgraded the kernel in Aptitude and installed a lot of new packages.

  wishlist item: for those of us who would like to stay on Sarge once
  it becomes stable, would it be possible to make the default version
  to install be "sarge" rather than "testing" in apt/sources.list etc?
  I mean for prerelease betas such as this one. Or at least provide
  this as an option.

I guess comments on this are beyond the scope of this report, but I
would really really really like for X installation not to melt my
brains.

This particular system has a problem with the display card which fails
to allocate enough memory to start up in anything more than 640x480.
The fix is available as a Debian package called 865patch, download
from http://www.joepenguin.com (thanks, Joe!)

I installed Gnome but unfortunately the version in testing seems to
retain that familiar Gnome look and feel -- some parts simply don't
work, and it will crash if you click rapidly in unexpected places etc.

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Subject: Bug#247751: fixed in netcfg 0.64
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Source: netcfg
Source-Version: 0.64

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
netcfg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

netcfg-dhcp_0.64_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg-dhcp_0.64_i386.udeb
netcfg-static_0.64_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg-static_0.64_i386.udeb
netcfg_0.64.dsc
  to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg_0.64.dsc
netcfg_0.64.tar.gz
  to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg_0.64.tar.gz
netcfg_0.64_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/n/netcfg/netcfg_0.64_i386.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 247751@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> (supplier of updated netcfg package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 20:36:04 -0700
Source: netcfg
Binary: netcfg-static netcfg-dhcp netcfg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.64
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Description: 
 netcfg     - Configure the network (udeb)
 netcfg-dhcp - Configure the network via DHCP (udeb)
 netcfg-static - Configure a static network (udeb)
Closes: 227722 236533 239121 239591 240701 244441 244819 244901 247178 247751 248636 249363
Changes: 
 netcfg (0.64) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Joshua Kwan
     - Split out all functions into static.c, dhcp.c, wireless.c.
     - Remove dep alternative to busybox-cvs-udeb etc., since udhcpc is no
       longer available in any initrd. This causes businesscard and netinst
       installs to fail because busybox is already provided and hence gets
       used.
     - Remove udhcpc support in dhcp.c.
     - Port wireless fixes back to netcfg-static and netcfg-dhcp, which
       have been rather neglected lately.
     - Fix the GO_BACK interaction between WEP and ESSID configuration.
     - Switch to using iproute for everything, a step towards removing
       ifconfig and route applets from busybox.
     - Add amd64 support. (Closes: #249363)
     - Open one set of socket FDs and use them for the whole runtime.
     - Write loopback all the time, even when you abort network config.
       (Closes: #248636)
     - Redesign DHCP strategy with a new template that uses a select,
       allowing the user to clearly alternate to static network config
       (Closes: #244901, #227722)
     - Display a brief note when DHCP lease gets acquired. (Closes: #247751)
     - Now we can ask for a DHCP hostname to add. (Closes: #236533, #239591)
     - If we didn't use one, see if the server is offering us one and seed
       netcfg/get_hostname with it. (Closes: #239121, #240701)
     - Failing that, bring the interface up and try to reverse-resolve
       the IP address into a hostname.
     - For idempotency reasons, down all interfaces after finding each
       one so that we can start from a clean slate. (Probably deals with
       Bug#227722)
     - Silently load af_packet. (Closes: #244441)
     - Add some code hunks from mii-diag to determine code path on link
       connection. (Closes: #247178)
     - Add some interface_up and interface_down functions.
     - Fix a long standing bug in devnames retrieval that did not strip
       newlines from the devnames input and caused cdebconf to screw
       up on subsequent questions.
     - Bump the DHCP wait to 15 seconds. The magic number seems to be just
       over 10 for me. (Closes: #244819)
     - Template cleanups: netcfg/static-title, netcfg/dhcp-title,
       netcfg/internal-pcmcia, netcfg/confirm_dhcp
     - Add dhcp3-client support. Not that it actually gets used now that
       we can get a DHCP-supplied hostname from dhcp-client.
     - Remove a lot of calls to /sbin/this and /sbin/that in response to Joey's
       rant on debian-boot.
   * Bastian Blank
     - Remove sleep.
   * Updated translations:
     - Bulgarian (bg.po) by Ognyan Kulev
     - Czech (cs.po) by Miroslav Kure
     - Danish (da.po) by Claus Hindsgaul
     - German (de.po) by Alwin Meschede
     - Greek, Modern (1453-) (el.po) by Konstantinos Margaritis
     - Spanish (Castilian) (es.po) by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino PeÃ±a
     - Basque (eu.po) by Piarres Beobide EgaÃ±a
     - Finnish (fi.po) by Tapio Lehtonen
     - French (fr.po) by Philippe Batailler
     - Hebrew (he.po) by Lior Kaplan
     - Hungarian (hu.po) by VERÃ?K IstvÃ¡n
     - Indonesian (id.po) by Parlin Imanuel Toh
     - Italian (it.po) by Giuseppe Sacco
     - Japanese (ja.po) by Kenshi Muto
     - Korean (ko.po) by Changwoo Ryu
     - Lithuanian (lt.po) by KÄ?stutis BiliÅ«nas
     - BÃ¸kmal, Norwegian (nb.po) by BjÃ¸rn Steensrud
     - Dutch (nl.po) by Bart Cornelis
     - Norwegian Nynorsk (nn.po) by HÃ¥vard Korsvoll
     - Polish (pl.po) by Bartosz Fenski
     - Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR.po) by AndrÃ© LuÃs Lopes
     - Portuguese (pt.po) by Miguel Figueiredo
     - Romanian (ro.po) by Eddy Petrisor
     - Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov
     - Slovak (sk.po) by Peter KLFMANiK Mann
     - Slovenian (sl.po) by Jure Ä?uhalev
     - Swedish (sv.po) by AndrÃ© Dahlqvist
     - Turkish (tr.po) by Osman YÃ¼ksel
     - Ukrainian (uk.po) by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
     - Simplified Chinese (zh_CN.po) by Carlos Z.F. Liu
Files: 
 7752387b3fca7b679faa381427e62be0 1526 debian-installer optional netcfg_0.64.dsc
 d0539a1ac82788bb54e39085488ef8ba 161167 debian-installer optional netcfg_0.64.tar.gz
 cbd92b47ee5baecc29b9225e943613e6 126814 debian-installer optional netcfg_0.64_i386.udeb
 481095adb7117d0e012d1bca7938ad8e 96092 debian-installer optional netcfg-dhcp_0.64_i386.udeb
 481f1d5267729fb38bdf4059b2ef528c 107962 debian-installer optional netcfg-static_0.64_i386.udeb
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