Bug#287406: installation-reports (Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E-6585 (Notebook / P3 800Mhz / 512 MB RAM, ATI M4 16MB)
Title: Nachricht
Package:
installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: RC2, 8MB netboot mini.iso from ftp.us.debian.org
uname
-a: "Linux debian 2.4.<nn-n>-686 <date> i686
GNU/Linux" from memory, later I had the kernal
2.6.8-1-686
Date: 27 December
2004
Method: Net install after
mini-iso boot, Boot from CD, Network
install from http://ftp2.de.debian.org,
proxied
Machine: Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E-6585 (Notebook
ATI M4 16MB)
Processor: Pentium 3 800Mhz
Memory: 512 MB D-RAM + 16 MB VRAM (ATI M4)
Root
Device: IDE 20 GB Harddisk,
/dev//hda
Root Size/partition table: /dev//hda1 = "/" 4 GB, /dev//hda2 = "swap" 1 GB, /dev//hda3 =
"/home" = 14 GB
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
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:
Initial
Install:
1) Wrong
default keyboard: After English Language and Country Germany, the default
Keyboard was US instead of Germany. Language is a preference, Keyboards
are more closely related to the geographic position than the language
used.
2) Partitioning (non
automatic) could be a bit friendlier. It was not clear that the displays
allowed navigation and selection (e.g. Mount Point). I initially thought
these were only informational displays and was not aware the options could be
changed. Perhaps sourround the options with square brackets (e.g. "Mount
Point: [ /home ]").
3) Please replace
"OK" / "Cancel" buttons with "Next" / "Back" or "OK" / "Back one Step".
Cancel suggests that this step is skipped and I was afraid to press
it...
After
Reboot:
4) Mouse detection
not automatic per default even though it is suggested in the text (the default
is "No").
5) Screen detection
not automatic per default even though it is suggested in the text (the default
is "No").
Selected "ATI" in
X-Windows at some point because my notebook has an ATI M4
chip.
6) Monitor signal
input default is "Advanced". Advanced should never be the default, it
should be "Medium" (Note: no "Easy" setting available...)
7) uDeb dialog
window tells me that uDebs are not active and I should reboot (or enter a
cryptic command line). What the hell is a uDeb?! Suggestion: add a
sentence that explains that a uDeb ist a "...".
After package
install:
8) Mail config:
Selected smarthost/no local mail
Exim config?
Why should exim run if I am using a desktop system? Oh well...
Bug: no way to add
username/password, just a cryptic message to read a /usr/share/doc/exim...
readme. Yuck!
Suggestion: if I can
enter a "smarthost" (perhaps "mail server" would be better) then I should be
able to add authentification username/password as well.
9) Inital X-Window
screen (I selected the ATI X-windows driver) is ok. I want to reboot
because of the "uDeb" message earlier.
Bug: it asks for a
"Shutdown" password, which I never entered.
Suggestion: This
should either be allowed on a desktop configuration (without pasword) or it
should refer to the admin or root password.
Note: after reboot,
i could reboot from the gnome session without a password!?!
-----------------
Inital install finished (two boots), further bugs/remarks:
Used "synaptic
package manager" to install kernel 6.8.1-1-686 (no probs, one reboot, all is
fine :-)
10) Bug: Proxy
information from install is not put into gnome network
config.
11) Bug: System
install keyboard setting (German in my case) is not in Gnome config, inital
setting is "US Keyboard".
12) Max resolution
is 800x600, only program that lets me select resolutions allows only 640x480 and
800x600.
Suggestion: Maybe
the Gnome-system-tools should be part of the desktop
package.
Cheers,
Duncan
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