Bug#296300: successful installing on 8 identical PC's
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Debian installer CD version rc2, got from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
on monday feb 21st 2005
uname -a:
Linux cluster2 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:18:43 EST
2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date:
monday feb 21st 2005, 11:00
Method:
Installed from Debian CD Installer, booting from CD.
Further packages installed from italian mirror
ftp://debian.fastweb.it/debian/
Proxied? (don't know what that means)
Machine:
assembled PC
Processor:
Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz
Memory:
2 GB
Root Device:
/dev/sda2
Root Size/partition table:
Output of fdisk /dev/sda
/dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7
HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6375 8441 16603177+ 83
Linux
/dev/sda3 8442 8806 2931862+ 82
Linux swap
/dev/sda4 8807 14946 49319550 f
W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 8807 13669 39062016 83
Linux
/dev/sda6 13670 14946 10257471 c
W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Here comes part of /etc/fstab
/dev/sda2 / reiserfs notail 0
1
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0
0
/dev/sda5 /dati reiserfs defaults 0
2
/dev/sda6 /windows vfat defaults 0
2
Summary: the partitioning of the SATA disk /dev/sda
begins
with a 50GB NTFS (Windows) partition, not used under
Debian.
Then there is the root partition (17 GB, reiserfs) on
/dev/sda2.
Then a 3GB swap partition on /dev/sda3, then a 40GB
reiserfs
partition and a 10Gb fat32 partition. /home is mounted
remotely
from an nfs server
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
cluster2:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7505 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 03)
0000:00:00.1 ff00: Intel Corp. E7505/E7205 Series RAS
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7505/E7205
PCI-to-AGP Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7505 Hub Interface B
PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 ff00: Intel Corp. E7505 Hub Interface B
PCI-to-PCI Bridge RAS Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev
82)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL
(ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL
(ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
0000:02:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev
04)
0000:02:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI
Bridge (rev 04)
0000:02:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev
04)
0000:02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI
Bridge (rev 04)
0000:04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
0000:05:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media
Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
0000:05:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9
[Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0d)
0000:05:04.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Silicon
Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3112
[SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
cluster2:~# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2550 (rev 03)
0000:00:00.1 ff00: 8086:2551 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2552 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 0604: 8086:2553 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.1 ff00: 8086:2554 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 82)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24c0 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24cb (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24c3 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:5159
0000:02:1c.0 0800: 8086:1461 (rev 04)
0000:02:1d.0 0604: 8086:1460 (rev 04)
0000:02:1e.0 0800: 8086:1461 (rev 04)
0000:02:1f.0 0604: 8086:1460 (rev 04)
0000:04:02.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02)
0000:05:01.0 0401: 13f6:0111 (rev 10)
0000:05:03.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 0d)
0000:05:04.0 0180: 1095:3112 (rev 02)
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:
The only problem was that ide-detect got the CD installer
hanged
while trying to find the local ide drives. Since there
are no
ide drives, the hanging was hanging on indefinitely.
We had to reboot with the linux26 option.
The 2.6 kernel recognizes the SATA drive properly.
Understanding this required a few minutes digging (and
cursing,
of course) through FAQs and similar.
For a virginal first-time GNU/Linux user, however, not
being
able to boot the install CD might be the unpretty end
of her short GNU/Linux adventure.
Best regards and heartly thanks for your work.
Renato Vitolo
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