Package: installation-reports
Version: 20040723
Severity: normal
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2004-07-22,
downloaded from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/
uname -a: Linux metalas 2.4.26-1-586tsc #1
Sat May 1 16:46:38 EST 2004 i586 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-07-23
Method: floppy, then network (http://debian.vinita.lt, no proxy).
Machine: An old Pentium
Processor: Pentium 200
Memory: 32MB
Root Device: IDE (/dev/hda1)
Root Size/partition table:
~1800MB /
~200MB swap
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
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 01)
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
0000:00:0a.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT
[Mach64 VT] (rev 40)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [E]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
expert installation.
Boy, that was *painful* :(
On boot the 'low RAM' dialog went on an infinite loop. joeyh on IRC
said that the issue was fixed after the images I was using were build.
Went through with a workaround (used nano to change 'set -e' to 'set +e' in
/sbin/debian-installer-startup).
Then I had problems with the network: the first time I tried, my router
firewall didn't let the box through. I fixed that (BTW, ping would be a
very nice thing to have...). Then I tried to install Debian stable. Didn't
work (showed an error, I think it was something like "can't download",
but I'm not sure). I reluctantly went on with Sarge (testing).
When the kernel module screen came up, I didn't bother unselecting the
unneeded ones. Later, when I ran out of memory, I found out that rmmod
wasn't there!
Partitioning didn't work, I think because of memory shortage. I would
get to the partitioning screen, choose 'Guided partitioning' (I'd have
chosen 'manual partitioning', but there was no such thing), and then I
would get bounced back to the main menu immediately. I did the
partitioning manually with fdisk in the other console.
BTW, I'd like to have at least two extra consoles, but that's not
really important.
Then I ran into a problem when trying to install the base system. I
think that before I managed to set up swap, the 'parted_server' daemon
got killed; the installer was trying to run the partition setup, which
would fail, then it would try to go on with the installation and failed
with 'no partition mounted on /target'. I mounted the partition, but
the error didn't go away -- apparently the partitioning stage would
unmount /target every time it ran and then try to run parted (or
something else), which would fail, and then continue to the next stage.
I worked around by repeatedly executing the mount command on the other
console after pressing <Enter> to proceed with base installation (I
guess I managed to fit one of the mount commands in the time interval
after the partition was unmounted but before the next stage checked for
the mount).
Had I known that I would have to get through all this, I surely would
have used the Woody installer... I had thought that d-i was pretty much
complete, and had expected to encounter maybe several minor glitches --
definitely not two near-showstoppers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8
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