Bug#322114: Sarge install report
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
It's the first official installer for Sarge -- the one
that includes "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list (I
saw no reason to burn another CD -- that little glitch
is easy to fix)
uname -a:
Linux rumi 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Date:
Thu Aug 4 17:20:25 BRT 2005
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
I used the Debian 3.1 CD (only the first in the CD set);
then I configured the network card (a PCMCIA 3com card),
got an IP from my other computer using DHCP, and used
APT to get the other packages from a mirror in my country.
Machine: Toshiba Tecra 8100
Processor: Pentium III 700 MHz
Memory: 256 Mb
Root Device:
It's an IDE HE, with 30 Gb capacity. /proc/ide/hda/model gives "HITACHI_DK23DA-30"
Root Size/partition table:
hda1 Primary Linux ext3 5000.98
hda2 Boot Primary Linux ext3 [/] 279.66
hda5 Logical Linux ext3 [/usr] 5000.98
hda6 Logical Linux ext3 [/var] 3002.23
hda7 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 764.96
hda8 Logical Linux ext3 [/tmp] 1003.49
hda9 Logical Linux ext3 [/home] 12995.95
Pri/Log Free Space 1957.62
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03)
0000:00:05.0 0680: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:05.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:05.2 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:05.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 0780: 11c1:0441 (rev 01)
0000:00:09.0 0d00: 1179:0d01
0000:00:0b.0 0607: 1179:0617 (rev 20)
0000:00:0b.1 0607: 1179:0617 (rev 20)
0000:00:0c.0 0401: 1073:0010 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 5333:8c10 (rev 11)
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: [E]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
This is my second Sarge install, and for the second time I had problems
setting up LVM. I gave up and didn't use it.
This is what I did:
1. First I chose to manually edit the partition table
2. Then I created a small boot partition (300 Mb, /dev/hda1), that I wanted
to be *out* of LVM; I chose ext3 as the filesystem for this partition
3. I then created a big (25 Gb) partition and instead of a filesystem,
I told the installer it would be used as an LVM physical volume
4. I created a volume group and logical volumes using that big partition
5. After I finished and told the installer to continue, it said it would
create the ext3 filesystem for the boot partition, but after the progress
bar finished, it said that the filesystem could not be created. Then the
installer refused to go ahead and I had to go back to start partitioning
again. I tried switching to other ttys (tty3 and tty4) to see what was
going on, but there was not useful message.
I noticed that although the installer complained about not being able to
set up the ext3 filesystem in /dev/hda1, cfdisk recognized it as an ext3
formatted partition.
I tried again, swapping the order of steps 4 and 5, but the same problem
happened. I tried reading the help on LVM partitioning, but it wasn't clear.
I gave up LVM and installed without it.
The installer is very good, but the part that does the partitioning is somewhat
hard to use. I didn't yet figure out how to set up LVM (and I did set up
LVM in a Fedora Core 3 box once; I also set up LVM manually in a spare disk I
used to have, so I'not a complete newbie to it)
One other little problem was with installing X. I chose to install packages
manually, and then I thought that just installing a graphical application
would bring X. Well, I was wrong! I got no fonts, and the X server itself
wasn't installed, although several pacakges related to X were installed. I
was expecting to have X installed just because I chose to install firefox
and xsane. But I understandthis is not a problem with the installer itself,
but rather with the way dependencies are defined in Debian (but I wanted
to mention, since it is something that bite me when I was installing Debian).
BTW, since I mentioned X -- my video card and monitor were detected and I
didn't have to do anything except to hit "Enter" a few times! Very good job.
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