Bug#265335: Installation report
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 1.0rc1
uname -a: Linux odin 2.6.7 #2 SMP Wed Aug 11 15:31:22 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: August 10th, 2004
Method: Network install, booted from Debian-installer CD-ROM. No proxies.
Machine: Custom-built, Asus motherboard
Processor: P4 2.8GHz
Memory: 1GB
Root Device: SATA /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: root 256MB, swap 1GB, usr and var on LVM, home automounted
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (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. 82801 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.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)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
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:
When configuring the X server after the reboot, I selected /dev/input/mice
as the input device for the mouse. But when starting the X server, it complained
that it couldn't open /dev/input/mice. I checked in /dev and the file was there...
Trying with other programs (gpm) gave the same result. Presumably the module for
/dev/input/mice wasn't getting loaded by the kernel installed by debian-installer
1.0rc1.
Also when starting the partion step I got some kind of warning about being careful
and all that, with two options. I'm sorry I don't remember the specific screen. It was
just a bit weird to be getting this since I was installing on a brand new (empty) disk.
I understand the need to be careful, but I think that if the disk block containing
the partion table is all zero, it's safe to assume that the disk is empty and jump
straight to partitioning...
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