Bug#289083: SPARCstn 5 [2004/12/19 daily]: suceeded w/ difficulty
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Chris Waters wrote:
The first problem (which was nearly a showstopper) was not actually a
boot problem. It was simply that the booted installer did not
recognize my model-5 keyboard (even though the kernel detected it just
fine). I actually tried four different boot images (daily2.4,
daily2.6, RC2/2.4, RC2/2.6), and none of them would work. They all
seemed to assume I had a PC keyboard (I'm guessing here). This seems
like a pretty major problem, and I'm surprised more people haven't
reported it! Perhaps there just aren't very many people testing d-i
on Sparc w/ Sun keyboards?
It was reported as bug 288140 (http://bugs.debian.org/288140). Please see
the last message there and try the linked netboot image to confirm that
the problem is gone when you are using it to boot.
The next problem was when I tried to partition. I told it to delete
all the partitions on my 2.1GB drive, and it told me that I had 2.1GB
of free space. Then I created a 350MB partition, and it told me that
I had only 400MB of free space left! I tried a couple of variations,
with basically the same result. Finally, I gave up, booted Solaris,
and used that to create my partitions, which worked fine, and I was
able to complete the installation without further problem. However,
halting and booting into Solaris should not be a necessary step in the
installation, IMO. :)
I don't think that problem is known. Can you repeat the install to see if
you can reproduce? Then the partman log (which is saved in
/var/log/debian-installer) on the installed system should tell us what
went wrong. If possible, please post a followup to this bug including it
(compressed) an attachment or make it available somewhere on the web for
inspection.
General thoughts: early in the process, it asked me where I wanted to
get the base-install images from, and had me select a server and
(optionally) configure a proxy. Later, after the initial reboot, it
asked me where I wanted apt to get its packages from, and it seemed to
have completely forgotten my earlier choices! Wouldn't it make more
sense to have it at least default to the same settings?
Don't know anything about that, perhaps somebody else can comment?
cheers
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