Bug#387381: Instllation Report for New Debian Installer on WinXP SP2 + VMware 5.5.1
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD image
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Completed at Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:51 (UTC)
Machine: VMware Workstation 5.5.1 running on Windows XP SP2
Processor: Pentium4 550 (3.4GHz)
Memory: 256MB for guest
Partitions: please see below; /dev/hda2 is formatted for reiserfs
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Disk /dev/hda: 12.8 GB, 12884901888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1566 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 66 530113+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 67 309 1951897+ 83 Linux
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Output of lspci and lspci -n:
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# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)
# lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 01)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 01)
00:07.0 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 08)
00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 08)
00:0f.0 0300: 15ad:0405
00:10.0 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 10)
00:11.0 0401: 1274:1371 (rev 02)
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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: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
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:
Installation was made through GUI with C locale, where the country was
set to Japan. No additional packages were installed by tasksel for my
preference. The graphical installer basically worked okay for me, but
I would like to give some comments:
* The user interface for manual partitioning is much far from intuitive.
This may make those who have not experienced the console installer be
in trouble over understanding usage.
* Option for skipping creation of a normal user is wanted, because some
situations (e.g. users managed by LDAP or NIS) require no local users
to be created.
* It is strange for me that both 2.6.16-2-686 and 2.6-686 are presented
as choice for the kernel to be installed, since they seem exactly the
same (i.e. both are linux-image-2.6.16-2-686).
* It would be better if prompt is made to ask whether the user wants to
keep (or remove) apt-line for CD-ROM installation.
* I think the hardware clock should be assumed to be set for local time
zone, not UTC, especially for a dual-boot system with Windows.
* It should be informed, in a way typical users can easily notice, that
the pciutils package is needed for the lspci command. I had to spend
several minutes to find this issue in making this report.
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