Package: installation-reports First: is there a problem with building d-i daily builds? I downloaded a daily build yesterday (20061120) and the file had timestamp from that day, too. But when starting d-i and go to F1 on boot prompt, there is mentioned 20061102! And also the file lsb-release says: DISTRIB_RELEASE="3.1 (installer build 20061102) Boot method: netinst CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso (downloaded at 20061120) Date: 20061120 Machine: Toshiba Laptop Satellite S320cds Partitions: hda1 3,6 GB ext2 as / hda2 260 MB as swap Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [ ] have none for this laptop Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [ E] Overall install: [O] Comments/Problems: Huh, I got a new test machine :-) 233MHz Laptop with 32 MB RAM and 4 GB disc. 1. low memory mode worked fine! 2. Question whether clock is set to utc or not was not asked in default install. Is that correct? 3. I installed from a netinst cd and only wanted to install a minimal system, so without any other package source. But it seems there is no grub or lilo existing on the netinst cds. From syslog: "Package grub has no installation candidate Package grub is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source Calling 'apt-install grub' failed" Therefore it is not possible to get a working system without additional package source. ??? If this is no error, there should be some documentation changed about this. 4. Great, that it's possible to install modern linux distributions on such old machines. Attached is hardware-summary and syslog file. Thanks Holger
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