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Bug#277691: installation report with pre-rc2



Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: pre-rc2
uname -a: Linux tinuviel 2.6.8-1-383
Date: 2004-10-15
Method: burned iso, apt through ethernet
Machine: laptop Dell D600
Processor: Pentium M 1.6 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: hda1
Root Size/partition table: all in one 5 GB partition (rest of the disk unused)
Output of lspci and lspci -n:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)

0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:3340 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:3341 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 81)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24cc (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24ca (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24c5 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.6 0703: 8086:24c6 (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4c66 (rev 02)
0000:02:00.0 0200: 14e4:165d (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 0607: 1217:7113 (rev 20)
0000:02:01.1 0607: 1217:7113 (rev 20)
0000:02:03.0 0280: 8086:4220 (rev 05)


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]

Comments/Problems:

At first I couldn't complete the install: after reboot, base-install
failed on tasksel, broken dependencies or something. But it seems the
problem was on the debian servers side for the day after I was able to
complete the install with exactly the same settings.  This problem
made me attempt several installs and I experienced the red screen
sometimes, not systematically.

Sometimes DHCP was detected at once, but two times it seems it was
detected "just too late": d-i reported a failure, but switching to
another console and typing ifconfig showed that the detection did
complete. After that, retrying DHCP detection from d-i succeeded
immediately.

/etc/fstab shows:
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

The cdrom line is OK (though I would rather have it mounted to /cdrom
directly, so that I can "mount /cdrom") but /media/cdrom0 doesn't
exist.

I don't know if this concerns d-i:

To get sound working, I had to add "skip i810_audio" in
/etc/discover.conf (oss-alsa conflict I guess), and "parport_pc" in
/etc/hotplug/blacklist (IRQ 7 conflict)

I found the X configuration a bit confusing: IIRC, I was told that
since I have an LCD screen that can only handle one resolution (or
something like that), I could only choose between 'normal' and
'advanced', so I chose 'normal', and I was asked for the resolution,
but I couldn't choose 1400x1050... After the install I edited
XF86Config-4 to add 1400x1050 and it works perfectly.



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