Bug#338688: installation-reports
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20050909 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-sparc-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux fido 2.4.27-2-sparc32-smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 3 06:02:25 UTC 2005 sparc GNU/Linux
Date: 20050909 03:03 GMT
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
used netinst, got network image from
first mirror at debian.org listed, tried to do installs from FSU, a
university in Delaware, University of Chicago, all failed
no proxy, but did install from behind a nat-ing router -- home Linksys router
Machine: Sun SPARCstation 20
Processor: dual TI SuperSparcII, not sure of cpu, 50 mHz?, caches are not same size.
Memory: 128MB
Root Device: SCSI IBM 9GB, DDRS-39130D, esp0: target 3
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Filesystem
1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2
8336572 1933684 5979416 25% /
tmpfs
60228
0 60228 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1
91159 7645
78650 9% /boot
total
used free
shared buffers cached
Mem:
117
114
3
0
48 27
-/+ buffers/cache: 37 79
Swap:
348
0 348
Output of lspci and lspci -n: N/A
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: When choosing what to load skipped preconfigs and
looked at detail, thinking I could backup and choose a preconfigure
after (ala redhat), no joy. Did load after install of base only.
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Would have liked a
gui disk partitioner. I couldn't figure how run the manual partition.
Wanted a larger swap - maybe just that would be nice, autopartition
with ability to specify swap size?
Wanted to look at the detail of installable packages, then back out to preconfigured packages, couldn't.
Tried to do the install with the 100BaseT interface,
but couldn't take all the link error messages. Sun nics never could
auto negotiate. I haven't gone back to the 100 interface to see if I
can force it and keep it quite, if possible that would be a nice add on
for install - hard to read the install curses menus with scrolling
errors on the nic.
Don't know what is up with mirrors. I was able to
browse the mirrors from a web browser on another machine but I could
not install from them, only from the debian.org mirror. I ended up
installing the base twice, maybe add a note in the install docs that
not all the mirrors may be available and to keep trying.
At end of install the console scrolled with serial
errors, BREAK+boot got me going again - could have been hypertem.
Enough of the bad ---
The net install is cool -- I really apreciate not having to burn all those CDs.
Surprise! SMP on first boot. I worried for naught. SMP on no identical cpus, cool.
Hardware support was painless - where did HAPPY MEAL come from ? :)
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