Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: rc1 (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/rc1/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso)
uname -a: Linux infopower 2.6.7-powerpc #1 Thu Aug 5 23:48:59 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-08-
Method: CD installation (booted from CD)
Machine: Apple PowerMac (newworld)
Processor: G4 (800MHz)
Memory: 1.5GB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda11
Root Size/partition table:
# mac-fdisk -l
/dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap Apple_Bootstrap 1954 @ 1544 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 54 @ 64 ( 27.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 74 @ 118 ( 37.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 54 @ 192 ( 27.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 74 @ 246 ( 37.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda7 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 320 (100.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda8 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 520 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda9 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1072265 @ 119028981 (523.6M) Linux swap
/dev/hda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 debian 119025483 @ 3498 ( 56.8G) Linux native
/dev/hda12 Apple_HFS dummy 1954 @ 120101246 (977.0k) HFS
hda2 is where ybin installes the bootloader.
hda11 is mounted on /.
hda10 is used as swap.
hda12 is to prevent OSX (on hdb2) from offering to clobber hda.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
$ lspci
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)
0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 PCI
0001:01:12.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03)
0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03)
0001:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0002:02:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 Internal PCI
0002:02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323
0002:02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 01)
$ lspci -n
0000:00:0b.0 0600: 106b:002d
0000:00:10.0 0300: 10de:0172 (rev a3)
0001:01:0b.0 0600: 106b:002e
0001:01:12.0 0100: 9004:5078 (rev 03)
0001:01:17.0 ff00: 106b:0022 (rev 03)
0001:01:18.0 0c03: 106b:0019
0001:01:19.0 0c03: 106b:0019
0002:02:0b.0 0600: 106b:002f
0002:02:0e.0 0c00: 11c1:5811
0002:02:0f.0 0200: 106b:0021 (rev 01)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
The hardware designers for this machine neglected to build an
eject button for the cdrom. I had to boot OSX in order to open
the cd tray and insert the installer cd. =p (not much debian can
do about that!)
The only major issue I encountered revolved around the aic7xxx
module. When the installer tried to load it, the kernel would
partially crash. After that no more modules could be loaded.
Likewise when 'discover' and 'hotplug' tried to load that module
during bootup. I simply used expert mode to tell the installer
not to load that module, addit it to hotplug's blacklist, and
removed discover. (IMO discover isn't terribly useful after
installation because the hardware will almost never change, and
hotplug will/should detect and load modules as needed) The SCSI
controller has no drives attached to it. I wonder if that is why
the aic7xxx module fails to work. A friend of mine is running
debian with his root partition on a SCSI disk using the aic7xxx
module.
The installer's partitioning GUI is rather decent. It would be
nice if it could create HFS partitions as well (see hda12 above).
I liked seeing parted included in the installer. I needed it when
I went back to create the HFS partition so OSX would stop desiring
to obliterate debian.
mac-fdisk ought to not let the user create an invalid partition,
or at least issue a warning. The first time I created hda12 it
was 500KB. I had to go back and increase it becase an HFS
filesystem can't be smaller than 800KB. Also, mac-fdisk ought to
present the user with some information about known fs type labels.
I spent a while experimenting before I discovered that 'Apple-HFS'
is the correct name, not 'hfs', 'HFS', or 'hfs+'.
I am quite happy with the progress of the installer and don't
consider any of the above issues (perhaps apart from the
kernel/driver issue) to be critical.
-D
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