-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 20040521 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: michaela@dud:~$ uname -a Linux dud 2.6.5-1-686 #5 Fri Apr 30 20:26:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 20040521 Method: standard procedure (boot the disc, base install, net install) Machine: Dell Processor: Pentium III Memory: 256 Root Device: (not relevant) Root Size/partition table: (not relevant) Output of lspci: michaela@dud:~$ lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) 0000:02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) 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: [O] 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: Three issues: 1. Switching text consoles during install causes tty1 to become garbled and unusable. The others remain fine. (This doesn't happen after the system boots up the first time.) This happens on real hardware and on virtual machines (both VMware and VirtualPC). It occurs both when booting with kernel 2.6. 2. The partition editor doesn't check for minimum block device/partition size requirements for filesystem options. Basically, it calculated a 20 MB /tmp filesystem for my installation. I prefer reiserfs, so I adjusted all partitions accordingly (knowing this would fail with /tmp since reiserfs requires in the neighborhood of 30 MB for the journal, AFAIK). The failure was not very graceful. A warning or an adjustment of the partitions would be very helpful here. 3. cfdisk cannot be used to partition the disk. It appears the target device is locked somehow, restricting the use of alternative partitioning tools. This is *really* annoying (the partition editor in the installer is pretty unwieldy). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Debian - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFArlH9CspOuQ9ZYPoRAsBtAJoCWN31CdLfckuJY01H691LvTNSQgCgtwV/ maWvp5lJXmLt3I3uJGcEMl8= =8bWp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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