Bug#315943: Debian Sarge Testing Installation Report
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Sarge Testing, Dec 2004 issue of PcQuest (DVD)
uname -a:
Linux HariLaptop 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Oct 7 02:21:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date:
Oct 6 16:30 IST (Indian Standard Time) >
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Booted off and installed all packages from the DVD directly
Machine:
Dell Latitude C800
Processor:
Genuine Intel Pentium III (coppermine)
Memory:
256 MB (256 kb cache)
Root Device:
IDE hda1 (60 GB FUJITSU MHS2060AT, ATA DISK drive)
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
hda1 NTFS 5 GB Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
hda5 NTFS 25 GB Personal Data and Programs installed on Windows OS
hda6 swap 256 MB Linux Swap Partition
hda7 ext3 5 GB /
Rest Unpartitioned Space
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M4 AGP
0000:02:03.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1983S Maestro-3i PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 10)
0000:02:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556 Hurricane CardBus [Cyclone] (rev 10)0000:02:06.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem (rev 10)
0000:02:0f.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
0000:02:0f.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4451 PC card Cardbus Controller
0000:02:0f.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4451 IEEE-1394 Controller
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:1130 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:1131 (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:2448 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:244c (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:4d46
0000:02:03.0 0401: 125d:1998 (rev 10)
0000:02:06.0 0200: 10b7:6055 (rev 10)
0000:02:06.1 0780: 10b7:1007 (rev 10)
0000:02:0f.0 0607: 104c:ac42
0000:02:0f.1 0607: 104c:ac42
0000:02:0f.2 0c00: 104c:8027
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:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Worked on Linux first at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, India during my
training for the International Informatics olymipad during 2002. Always wanted to try
out Linux after that.
Read online about various distributions, and decided to go with Debian GNU/Linux. However
didn't know where to obtain it from, till a magazine provided a DVD.
First read someone else's experience at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5656,
I learnt that Dell Latitude C800 supports only the 1600x1200 screen resolution, and
that there is a problem with the auto detection of PCMCI. Hence I booted with the following
line
linux26 hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
The installation went perfectly, used tasksel to install only the desktop package, and
switched to vt2 while configuring PPP and configured ADSL using pppoeconf
I am a computer engineering sophomore in Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and am
in India for my summer. In India my parents subscribe to a magazine called PcQuest and their
Decemeber 2004 issue contained the DVD that I used for the install. We have a PPPOE ADSL
connection at India and cable broadband at my campus in US.
apt-get and dpkg just worked, and I used the mirror site at IITM, India. I will change
the sources.list file once I am in USA.
Grub correctly identified Windows at hda1.
At campus, we use wireless internet, and I have not yet configured my wireless (I use
a PCMCIA 802.11b card). I have to find out how to do that.
The Debian reference manual on the web at qref.sourceforge.net is absolutely wonderful
Sound card was automatically configured.
Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
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