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Bug#384948: installation report



Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: etch beta 3 installer
Date: 8/27/2006

Machine: Dell 2950
Processor: 2 Dual-Core 3.2Ghz
Memory: 8GB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

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]
Detect CD: [E] (see instance one)
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E] (see instance two)
Install boot loader: [E] (see instance three)
Reboot: [ ]

1.
Box has two CDROM drives, the second cdrom drive is a virtual SCSI drive, when detection for the cdrom the installer after it checks for the correct cdrom in the IDE drive it doesn't check the SCSI cdrom /dev/sr0. Manually mounting the SCSI cdrom in /cdrom fixes this problem.

2.
Errored out w/ debootstrap error unable to determine codename for release.

Fixed by manually running: debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /target http://http.us.debian.org/debian
Then I proceeded to download other packages needed (e.g. kernel, bootloader etc)

3. Complained that it would not run because the previous step was not done, but the previous step complained because it was unable to determine a codename for release.
basically I was unable to test this step. Manually installed bootloader.


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