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Bug#355884: INSTALL REPORT



Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso
    (downloaded on 2006-03-06 from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso)
uname -a: Linux firewall1b 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2006-03-08 10:00 GMT
Method: How did you install?  What did you boot off?  If network
      install, from where?  Proxied?
   - boot from netinst CD (from official Debian server)
   - network install from ftp.de.debian.org
   - no proxy (but a masquerading gateway)

Machine: Transtec rack-mount server 1002
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Root Device: IDE /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
Root Size/partition table:
  Disk /dev/hda: 4865 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

     Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hda1          0+    607     608-   4883728+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
  /dev/hda2        608    1215     608    4883760   fd  Linux raid autodetect
  /dev/hda3       1216    4864    3649   29310592+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
  /dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

  Disk /dev/hdb: 4865 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

     Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hdb1          0+    607     608-   4883728+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
  /dev/hdb2        608    1215     608    4883760   fd  Linux raid autodetect
  /dev/hdb3       1216    4864    3649   29310592+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
  /dev/hdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

  Personalities : [raid1] 
  read_ahead 1024 sectors
  md0 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1[0] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1[1]
        4883648 blocks [2/2] [UU]
        
  md1 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2[0] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2[1]
        4883648 blocks [2/2] [UU]
        
  md2 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3[0] ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3[1]
        29310528 blocks [2/2] [UU]
        
  unused devices: <none>

    PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize  PFree 
  /dev/md2   firewall1b lvm2 a-   27,95G 14,95G
  
  /dev/mapper/firewall1b-root on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
  /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
  /dev/mapper/firewall1b-var on /var type ext3 (rw)

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) UltraATA-100 IDE Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Syskonnect (Schneider & Koch) SK-98xx V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 13)
0000:01:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C990B-TX-M/3C990BSVR [Typhoon2] (rev 03)
0000:01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:2560 (rev 03)
0000:00:02.0 0300: 8086:2562 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:24c2 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:24c4 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:24c7 (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:24cd (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 82)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:24c0 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:24cb (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:24c3 (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 0200: 1148:4320 (rev 13)
0000:01:03.0 0200: 10b7:9904 (rev 03)
0000:01:05.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02)
0000:01:06.0 0200: 8086:100e (rev 02)

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

Comments/Problems:

	- D-I failed to read the discover and the grub package from the
	  downloaded and self-burnt netinst CD; I could find out the grub
	  package name from the log on tty2 and enter a wget command on
	  tty1, download the package and apt-get install it. Repeating the
	  grub step did work then. The installer might perhaps offer to
	  download defective packages from the net ...
	
	- I chose the swap space to reside on /dev/md1 (which is a
	  RAID-1 from /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdb2). The partitioning tool
	  accepted my choice but the swap space wasn't entered into
	  the fstab.
	
	- The root filesystem was created on a logical volume, the
	  PV for which is on /dev/md2 (RAID-1 from /dev/hda3 and /dev/hdb3).
	  /boot was assigned to /dev/md0 (RAID-1 from /dev/hd?1).
	  The partitioning tool understood this scheme only after I did
	  everything in "the right order": Create the LVs, set / as mount
	  point for the root LV, and _only_then_ set /boot as mount point
	  for /dev/md0. When I assigned /boot before /, /boot was
	  forgotten.
	
	- The network interfaces were correctly identified during the
	  installation: The onboard e1000's as eth1 and eth2, the sk98lin
	  as eth0 (IIRC), and the typhoon as eth3. So I configured eth1
	  as primary interface to the outside world, and it worked (see
	  above: I could download the replacement grub package). But after
	  rebooting into the installed system no interface was active
	  (none of the necessary modules loaded, none entered into the
	  /etc/modules file). I modprobed e1000 and with "ifup eth0=eth1"
	  could continue with the installation.
	  
	  Now, looking at the installation logs, I suspect that this
	  could have been caused by the failure to install discover.
	
	- The installation got _very_ slow because, after partitioning,
	  the RAID-1 volumes started synchronizing. It might be better
	  (and hopefully not too fragile) to create the RAID-1's as
	  one-way mirrors first and later on add the second devices, thus
	  starting off the sync process.
	
	- With /boot on RAID-1 it would be very nice and comfortable if
	  the installer created a grub MBR and boot code on the second
	  disk too ...

Install logs and other status info is available in /var/log/debian-installer/.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.

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