Bug#308936:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: rc3, downloaded from debian.org
uname -a: Linux iMac3 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Thu Feb 24 14:15:19 CET 2005 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 10.III.2005
Method: netinst image, boot from CD, packages downloaded from ftp.pl.debian.org
Machine: NewWorld iMac
Processor: PowerPC 233MHz
Memory: 92 MB
Root Device: IDE /dev/hda3
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1 - Apple partition
/dev/hda2 - /boot
/dev/hda3 - /
/dev/hda4 - swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O
0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 3a)
0000:00:14.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0017
0000:00:12.0 0300: 1002:4756 (rev 3a)
0000:00:14.0 0c03: 1045:c861 (rev 10)
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: [E]
Comments/Problems:
Install went very smooth, altough I'm new to powerpc arch. My only problem related with booting was getting into OpenFirmware and working with it. Manual is very uninformative about it.
Those iMacs I'm installing Debian on have non-Apple USB keyboards and mouses. While I hadn't got time to check if mouse works, it's impossible to select non-mac keyboard while installing. I tried expert, but still i didn't had this option. I had to copy pl.kmap.gz to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz to make it work.
There should be an option to select keyboard layout from all available.
Also, after expert installation base-config was put in /etc/inittab on tty1. While the program itself worked well, once I finished base-config it was started again and again. I had to manually modify /etc/inittab. This didn't happen when I did normal install.
One last thing that annoys me. OF starts up its command line every boot and since I'm unfamiliar with !i386 I'm unable to make it boot hd:,\yaboot automaticaly. Option to set default boot device/file (for those archs that support it) with d-i (possibly as a part of "install bootloader" step) would be cool.
Apart from those bugs, d-i works just marvelous. Great work guys!
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