Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/ daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from 20061123 Date: 20061124 Machine: Machine: Toshiba Laptop Satellite S320cds Partitions: hda1 3,9 GB ext2 as / hda2 96 MB as swap (but I tried several different schemes, read further) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ E] ext3 creation failed Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ E] kbd-chooser failed Comments/Problems: too things on low memory install: 1. when running low memory install in expert mode, the execution of kbd-chooser fails (segmentation fault; "Configuring 'kbd-chooser' failed with error code 139") When running as default mode all works fine. ~:| And, as said, only occures on machines which require low memory install. 2. ext3 creation on low memory machines. There has been a bugreport on nslu2 where creating 1GB ext3 partitions failed (ran out of memory) when swap partition was to small. I have here a 4GB hard disc and I wasn't able to create a ext3 partition of this size (tried with different swaps, max was 128 MB). Progress bar froze everytime at 33%. - Perhaps only use ext2 in low memory installs? (don't provide the ext3 udeb) - Or some note in the manual about this situation? Syslog file is attached (see line 253 for kbd-chooser segmentation fault). Thanks Holger
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