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Bug#249650: installation report (beta4, success)



Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: beta4, x86, http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux frodo 2.6.6 #2 Tue May 18 18:19:37 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: Sunday May 16
Method: I installed from the CD (from which I booted). didn't use network until the installation was finished.

Machine:
Processor: Athlon Thunderbird 1.2ghz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda3
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1   *           1        8924    71681998+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            8925        8992      546210   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            8993       16287    58597087+  83  Linux

hda1= win2k partition, hda2=swap, hda3=root

Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1647 Northbridge [MAGiK 1 / MobileMAGiK 1] (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:00:06.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
0000:00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15DDR [GeForce2 Ti] (rev a4)


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:  [e]
Create file systems:    [o]
Mount partitions:       [o]
Install base system:    [o]
Install boot loader:    [o]
Reboot:                 [o]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

OK, so partitioning didn't quite work. This is partly my (mainboard's) fault, partly installer's.

The situation is: My Mainboard only supports either PIO, or harddisks larger than 128 GB. d-i enabled dma. In windows, I had pio disabled and created an extended partition, and I wanted to install debian into a logical partition inside that one. Now, that extended partition crossed that 128 GB boundary. /sbin/fdisk didn't seem to mind much; cfdisk did (complained that partition table was larger than disk), and I assume that is the reason why d-i didn't show any partitions on this harddisk, even though a NTFS partition did exist. imho it should have shown it.

anyway, eventually I deleted that partition, and decided to only use the lower 128 GB. I can't remember if I let d-i partition automagically, I don't think I did.


That was the first problem.
The next problem was: At the end of the installation, d-i tried to upgrade the system. Unfortunately console-common seems to have a problem in testing, which caused an "error 9" when installing. I fixed this by changing "testing" to "unstable" in /etc/apt/sources.list which I wanted to install anyway.

Oh, and finally: The installer didn't seem to recognize my win2k installation on the NTFS partition. but I see that you listed this on the errata page, and have fixed it already.


The rest went ok, I think. Surprisingly well in fact. You did a good job :)




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