Bug#350813: installation-reports

[Doug Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

Package: installation-reports

Hello,

I have had poor luck with the 3.1 installer.

Is there any disadvantage to using the 3.0 installer with minimal base system
and upgrading via ppp?

5.3.5. Submitting Installation Reports

   If you still have problems, please submit an installation report. We
   also encourage installation reports to be sent even if the
   installation is successful, so that we can get as much information as
   possible on the largest number of hardware configurations. Please use
   this template when filling out installation reports, and file the
   report as a bug report against the "installation-reports" pseudo
   package, by sending it to <submit@bugs.debian.org>.
Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: hd-media/2.6/vmlinuz and initrd.gz
	downloaded a couple of weeks ago for another install.
	verified MD5SUMS still correct 2006-01-31
uname -a: unable to run
Date: 2006-01-30-31
method: put drive in working system, copied hd-media/2.6/vmlinuz and initrd.gz
	to drive, with the netinst.iso file.  
	This drive not inteded to be used as a partition during install.
	Intended to be used later.

Machine: IBM ValuePoint 6492X5C
Processor: 80486DX4-100 L1 16KB, L2 256 KB
Memory: 32 MB
Root Device: 6449 MB EIDE as /dev/hda
		Install media on 171 MB IDE as /dev/hdc
Root Size/partition table: Didn't get this far, but I inteneded:
	hda	6449 MB
	   1	24  MB JFS /boot
	   5	128 MB JFS /
	   6	2 GB   JFS /usr
	   7	128 MB swap
	   8	2 GB   JFS /var
	   9	2+GB   JFS /home
	   
	hdc	cdrom
	hdc	171 MB
	   1	17 MB	/mnt/bak-boot (backup of /boot so can boot emergency
	   			 with grub since boot floppies don't work
	   			 with JFS root
	   5	154+ MB swap
	   
	   used this hdc5 partition as ext3 with intall media
	  
	hdd	zip
	
Output of lspci and lspci -n:  no pci

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [E]
Config network:         [E]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [E]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:    [E]
Mount partitions:       [E]
Install base system:    [E]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:


Attempted 3 times with no different result.  Here's my verbatim notes,
but note that the 'save bug logs' also failed.

Boot with Grub floppy disk

	root (hd1,4)
	kernel (hd1,4)/hd-media/2.6/vmlinuz \ [ all on one line]
		devfs=mount,dall
		root=/dev/ram0 
		ramdisk_size=12000
		debconf/priority=low
		
		[added these for last try]
	 	hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false
	 	netcfg/disable_dhcp=true
	 	debian-installer/probe/usb=false
	 	debian-installer/framebuffer=false
	 
	 initrd (hd1,4)/hd-media/2.6/initrd.gz
	 
get to load installer components, returns us to this menu choice
run it again, and again, it returns us to the network hardware choice
run detect network hardware, and again, and again, and again,
skip that, go to configure network
spits back to detect network hardware.
choose free memory
goes to detect hardware
partition disks
gets partway along the progress bar (about 28%)
get error codes, scrolling up screen
	[<c0105f97>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
	segmentation fault
eventually puts back to menu
choose save debug logs,
more error codes.
eventually, I just Ctrl-Alt-Del