Bug#276182: Installation Report: Pre-RC2 on Dell 600SC, success
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2 i386 netinstall iso, 20041010,
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/pre-rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux gabbana 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004
i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 20041010, ~20:00CDT
Method: I burned the iso to CD and booted from it. No proxy.
Machine: Dell 600SC
Processor: 2.4GHz Pentium 4
Memory: 640MB, but it thinks it has 884MB(???)
Root Device: 40GB IDE HD, hda
Root Size/partition table:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 7.4G 74M 6.9G 2% /
tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 118M 9.3M 103M 9% /boot
/dev/hda9 6.7G 33M 6.4G 1% /home
/dev/hda10 919M 8.1M 862M 1% /tmp
/dev/hda5 5.5G 225M 5.0G 5% /usr
/dev/hda6 7.4G 179M 6.8G 3% /var
/dev/hda7 912M 14M 850M 2% /var/log
/dev/hda8 7.4G 33M 7.0G 1% /var/www
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge
0000:00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
0000:00:0e.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0217 (rev a0)
0000:00:0f.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CSB6 South Bridge (rev a0)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB6 RAID/IDE Controller (rev a0)
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks CSB6 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05)
0000:00:0f.3 ISA bridge: ServerWorks GCLE-2 Host Bridge
lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1166:0017 (rev 32)
0000:00:00.1 0600: 1166:0017
0000:00:02.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 0300: 1002:4752 (rev 27)
0000:00:0e.0 0101: 1166:0217 (rev a0)
0000:00:0f.0 0600: 1166:0203 (rev a0)
0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1166:0213 (rev a0)
0000:00:0f.2 0c03: 1166:0221 (rev 05)
0000:00:0f.3 0601: 1166:0227
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: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O/E]
Comments/Problems:
A little more about my installer choices:
At the boot: prompt I chose gave the parameters "expert
netcfg/disable_dhcp=true". At the "load installer components from CD"
step, I enabled network-console and open-ssh-client-udeb so that I
could have SSH access during the installer.
Although I gave it the "netcfg/disable_dhcp=true" boot parameter, it
still asked me whether I wanted to use DHCP or give parameters for a
static configuration. I'm not sure whether that is intended behaviour
or not, but I found it a little strange. It loaded the correct module
for my network card (e1000).
While looking for drivers, it gave me the somewhat scary message that
it was not able to load some of the modules needed to power my
hardware. I'm not really sure what that was about (I can't remeber
which modules it listed, but it was IDE stuff and included ide-scsi
and 3 or 4 others). AFAICT everything works just fine, though I
haven't tested the floppy drive.
The installer asked me about PCMCIA three different times, which was
rather annoying, though completely harmless.
After configuring networking, I was told that I could set a password
and SSH into the install as the "installer" user, and I did. It was
really nice to be able to do this. I suspect that this could have
something to do with the weirdness that followed: at the end of the
installer I was told that the base system had been installed, and to
please remove the CDROM from the drive and reboot. I did so. When it
came back up, it dropped me into a login prompt. Of course, at this
point I hadn't been asked to set a root password or set up any user
accounts, so I just logged in as root with no password. I expected it
to drop me into base-config, but it didn't. It wasn't a huge issue
because I just ran /usr/sbin/base-config myself, but that has the
potential to be confusing for someone who might not be aware of the
base-config command.
Thanks to everyone for all the hard work!
- Colleen
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