Bug#340776: Installation report debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso downloaded 22 Nov 2005
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 12:10:04PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting richard@sheugh.com (richard@sheugh.com):
>
> > I think that immediately after the first re-boot I was either asked
> > for a password or was presented with a prompt. I hit return and found
> > myself logged in as the root user. I cannot be sure that I ignored a
>
> *that* is really surprising. You should have entered the "base-config"
> step which finishes the installation (setup root pwd, turn shadow
> passwords on and so on).
>
I re-ran the installation to the point where "base-config" gets called.
It throws up a message with a red background complaining about a
dirty? install. If it had thrown up that message for the first install
with all the disks partitions except /home formatted, I would
probably have aborted the "base-config" rather than risk damage to
/home.
When I got to that point today I abandoned the installation.
> Investigating what could have triggered this could be tricky....unless
> you can retry the install..:-)
>
That is a possibility. I was intending to burn most of Debian|testing
onto DVD or CD-ROM's, and of course prove that it works. It may take
a week or two.
In the meantime there are abour 12 install --reinstalls to do to
get shadow passwords accepted by applications.
> > No question was asked, and I will file this problem as a bug
> > against exim4. It may seem trivial, but loss of access to mail
>
> No, don't. This is *also* because the base-config step didn't run. So
> no need to bug exim4 maintainers with this.
>
I was approaching this from the view that there is inconsistency.
Sometimes Debian asks for commas, sometimes spaces, but colons
appear to be an exception when entering URL's or hostnames.
A two-line example in the guidance would help configure exim4.
> > caused me a lot of problems. Apologies for misleading you.
> >
> > Pardon my curiosity, but do you know why my IDE hard disk and the
> > DVD-ram disk at /dev/hda and /dev/hdd cannot be accessed?
>
>
> No idea actually....
>
Hmmm .. This may have something to do with my Abit motherboard.
I will give this some thought when configuring a new kernel.
regards
Richard
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