Bug#310754: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20050518/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux gs4445 2.6.11.10 #2 Fri May 20 14:48:23 EDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 20050520 10:00 EST
Method: boot from netinst CD, installed from http://http.us.debian.org mirrors
Machine: Dell desktop
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Memory: 1GB
Root Device: IDE /dev/hda2 (ext3)
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) (12GB)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /opt type ext3 (rw) (15GB)
/dev/hda3 on /var type ext3 (rw) (5GB)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt type ext3 (rw) (500MB)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
arla on /afs type nnpfs (rw)
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub
Interface (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI
#4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge
(rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA
100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5) Serial ATA 150
Storage Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller
(rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4
MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
0000:02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)
Output of lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2570 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:2571 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24d2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24d4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24d7 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.3 0c03: 8086:24de (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24dd (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev c2)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24d0 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24db (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 0101: 8086:24d1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24d3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:24d5 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0181 (rev c1)
0000:02:0c.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try
it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [E]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
I ran the installer in expert26 mode.
Errors were reported when loading modules (in particular when loading the
ethernet card driver), but these did not affect the install. Most errors
were on modules for hardware I don't have, but one was for the ethernet card.
The module seemed to load and function fine.
The biggest problem I had was with the labelling of partitions. This
machine is provided by the university where I am a grad student, and it comes
preloaded with RedHat and Windows. I installed Debian on the Windows
partition, and I need to keep RedHat. I didn't alter the grub configuration
during the debian install; I planned to boot back into RedHat and alter the
menu.lst on its root partition (/dev/hda5). However, the RedHat grub entries
relied on mounting the root partition by the label (LABEL=/). The
debian-installer assigned this same label to its root partition (/dev/hda2).
Even though I was in expert mode, I don't recall being offered a choice to
veto this label. As a result, the already-present RedHat grub entries booted
old RedHat kernels with the new Debian root filesystem. Results were
interesting but easily correctable.
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