Bug#373119: installation-report: mips weekly netboot.img 2006-06-11

[Erich Waelde <ew.ng116837@online.de>]

Package: installation-reports

installation-report: mips weekly netboot.img 2006-06-11

I snatched an old SGI O2 off the garbage, what better use is
there than trying a new netboot image?


Boot method:
    network boot:
    bootp(): append="debconf/priority=low"
Image version:
    Boot image from 2006-06-11
    http://people.debian.org/~ths/d-i/mips/images/daily
    7e095fb7af92c2af8c512e81a9c3d2f6  debian-mips-netboot-boot.img
Date: 2006-06-12

Machine:    SGI O2
Processor:
    metis:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
    system type             : SGI O2
    processor               : 0
    cpu model               : R5000 V2.1  FPU V1.0
    BogoMIPS                : 198.65
Memory:     256 MiB
Partitions:
    metis:~# df -T
    Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1     ext2     3830348    269308   3366468   8% /
    tmpfs        tmpfs      126612         0    126612   0% /dev/shm
    tmpfs        tmpfs       10240        48     10192   1% /dev
    metis:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda

    Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 132 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 8184 * 512 bytes

    ----- partitions -----
    Pt#    Device  Info     Start       End   Sectors  Id  System
     1: /dev/sda1  boot         2       952   7782984  83  Linux native
     2: /dev/sda2  swap       953      1016    523776  82  Linux swap
     9: /dev/sda3               0         1     16368   0  SGI volhdr
    11: /dev/sda4               0      1016   8323128   6  SGI volume
    ----- Bootinfo -----
    Bootfile: /unix
    ----- Directory Entries -----
     0: arcboot    sector    4 size   70794

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
    metis:~# lspci
    00:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U
    00:02.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U
    metis:~# lspci -n
    00:01.0 0100: 9004:8078
    00:02.0 0100: 9004:8078
    metis:~# lsscsi
    [0:0:1:0]    disk    HP       4.26GB A 80-880R 880R  /dev/sda
    [0:0:4:0]    cd/dvd  TOSHIBA  CD-ROM XM-5701TA 0167  /dev/scd0


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] dhcp
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O] selected unstable
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:

<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>

Network:
It turned out after lengthy trying and wondering that the O2
needs some handcrafted network settings as described for
booting "Indy"s. On the system running the tftp daemon limit
the ethernet source port to numbers below 32k:

echo "2048 32767" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc

And make sure your fire_wall setting are nice :-)
And after that make sure you use a http-proxy to get low
source ports for that, too (used tinyproxy_1.6.3-2).


Partition Harddisk:
The disk did have a "foreign" disklabel, so the partitioner
offered expert menu (x) to create one (g) and go back to
main (r). Very nice!

Mount partitions:
Well, I got fancy and chose xfs, but booting from xfs seems
to be impossible :-( If that is the case, then a check and
message would sure help. So I took ext2 on the second attempt.

Select and Install Software:
There used to be a "Select packages manually" or something
such in expert mode. It seems to have vanished. :-(

BootLoader:
The message detailing how to reboot is just nice. Saves me a
lot of head scratching! Kudos!

metis:~# uname -a
Linux metis 2.6.16-2-r5k-ip32 #1 Tue May 23 16:26:44 BST 2006 mips64
GNU/Linux

Thanks for making this possible!