Bug#280328: [i386][20041029][netinst] PPP problems
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20041029/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a:
Linux white-cloud 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-10-30 till 2004-11-1 (see below)
Method:
Boot netinst-CD
linux (no additional parameters given)
load additional packages in 2nd stage via PPP from german mirror
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de testing
Machine: White box from PC-Spezialist
Processor: AMD Duron 800 MHz
Memory: 256 MB
Root Device: IDE 40 GB
lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16)
0000:00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
0000:00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 30)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev a1)
lspci -n:
---------
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:0305 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:8305
0000:00:07.0 0601: 1106:0686 (rev 40)
0000:00:07.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
0000:00:07.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 16)
0000:00:07.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 16)
0000:00:07.4 0680: 1106:3057 (rev 40)
0000:00:07.5 0401: 1106:3058 (rev 50)
0000:00:07.6 0780: 1106:3068 (rev 30)
0000:00:0e.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev a1)
cfdisk /dev/hda:
Size: 40020664320 bytes, 40.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4865
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
hda2 Primary FAT16 [MS-DOS_6 ] 2146,80
hda1 Primary W95 FAT32 (LBA) 14353,12
hda4 Boot Primary Linux ext3 [/] 9220,54
hda5 Logical Linux swap 542,87
hda6 Logical Linux ReiserFS 5000,98
hda7 Logical Linux ext3 [/home] 8751,70
cat /etc/fstab:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
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]see below
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]see below
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments:
+ I choosed language=German, country=Deutschland (Germany) and added keyboard
option=nodeadkeys
+ manually setting network address (No DHCP available) works flawless
+ manually repartioned /dev/hda (deleted 2 partitions at the end of the disk
and created hda4, hda5, hda6 and hda7)
+ used lilo as bootloader in hda4, as I have a special bootloader on this box
Problems:
In 2-nd stage pppconfig has several problems:
1) In "main menu" ("Hauptmenü") the text is displayed in englisch, although
title and options are displayed correctly in german.
I looked at the de.po file (271), but in there it's correctly translated!!
2) The english text in "main menu" is not fully displayed. It stops after "...
.Hit ENTER to select an", so you don't know what to select.
Don't know if this is related to 1)
3) While setting up "provider" it didn't auto detect my analog modem "ELSA
Microlink Office" on /dev/ttyS0. So I had to select it myself.
4) While setting advanced options, each option has a description, which is cut
off (==unreadable). But there is plenty of whitespace displayed before.
Don't know, if this is a problem with debconf?
5) Back in "main menu", after setting up "provider", there is no "Change" or
"Delete" option to choos from. So if you made a mistake, you can't correct it.
Instead you have to "Create" a new configuration under another name.
Note: After complete installation you get these two options when running
pppconfig!
6) Just to test it, I selected "Desktop" in tasksel, and downloaded it via
analog modem. It took ~31 hours to download(hence the above date range ;-)
Becaus of this long time, my provider diconnected my connection 2 times.
In Germany at least this forced disconnection is enforced by law!
The problem is, that I didn't get an error message on first console.
base-config just throws me to it's base menu with the next step selected.
So I had to select "package selection and installation" ("Pakete auswählen
und installieren") again, to continue the download, after using pon again.
The only way, to prevent this, would be to set the advanced option "persist"
while configuring PPP in pppconf. But this is not documented in the install
manual under "7.2.3 Setting Up PPP" at all.
7) Shouldn't I've got the K7 flavour of the kernel?
Thanks for this lovely installer!
Bye
Christian
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