Bug#239367: about your Debian installation report

["P.B.van.den.Berg" <P.B.van.den.Berg@farm.rug.nl>]

Package: installation reports

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:53:54 -0400 (EDT)
joey@kitenet.net (Joey Hess) wrote:

> Hello, I'm writing you because you filed an installation report a while ago
> on an old version of the debian installer. Your installation report was #239367
> and can be viewed online at <http://bugs.debian.org/239367>.
 
Old report:
1.
Installer does not find kernel module for usb DSL modem speedtouch, 
grep -rl speedt /var/log/debian-installer/* returns nothing.
Standard debian kernel:
Linux version 2.4.25-1-k7 (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1
  Tue Feb 24 14:24:28 EST 2004 (with discover and hotplug)
does autoload module speedtch: usb.c: registered new driver speedtch
2.
Packages speedtouch and libatm1 are not present on the install image.
These packages (and ppp) must be available to setup the speedtouch modem
before you can connect to the net to complete netinst.
3.
My cdwriter and dvd-player were detected as /dev/hdd and /dev/hdc and both
did not work.
After adding the next line to grub.conf
  kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
and adding the following 2 lines to /etc/modutils/actions 
  options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd'
  pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
and running update-modules both work fine.

New install:
Installing from sarge-i386-netinst.iso (pre-rc2) size 113061888 
downloaded 2004-10-14 19:22 

1.
Both kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 autoload module speedtch. Problem solved.
2.
The netinst-iso does not contain all the available debian packages. Debian
ppp/dsl maintainer Marco d'Itri made page 
http://dsl.linux.it/DebianNetinstall
which lists several official debian packages (and some unofficial firmware
packages) that you must download before you can use netinst with dsl-modems.
It would be usefull if you could insert that page into the install 
documentation.
pppconfig or pppoeconfig don't work for these modems, so you have to setup
them manually. In my case /usr/share/doc/speedtouch/examples/peers-pppoa
misses an essential pppd-option: updetach, to get my modem working.
You must really dig deep into the documention before you find that out.
I can contribute my working /etc/ppp/peers/provider for the speedtouch 330
modem. See attachment.

3. CD/DVD troubles:
Hardware: (collected from output from dmesg):
hdc: AOPEN 16XDVD-ROM/AMH 20020328, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Memorex 40MAXX 1248AJ, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive 

3A. Installing kernel 2.6.8:

from ls -l /
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 11 2004-10-14 21:41 /cdrom -> media/cdrom

ls -l /media
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    6 2004-10-14 21:41 cdrom -> cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 2004-10-14 21:41 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2004-10-14 21:41 floppy0

installing kernel 2.6.8 left a dangling symlink in /media
There were no symlinks in /dev for the cd/dvd-players.

3B. Installing kernel 2.4.27
Symlinks where properly set up in /, /media, and /dev, but there was no 
SCSI-emulation. Do I really need to manually setup SCSI-emulation before 
I can burn a cdrom?
It seems that Knoppix 3.4 uses scsi emulation for all ATAPI devices. That 
works fine for me.

Regards, Paul

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