Bug#415871: Installation report
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: i386 netinstall etch release candidate 2 from 2/22/07 and
from 3/19/07 8:50
Machine: Dell Optiplex 745, Pentium D 2.8 GHz processor, hardware clock
set to local time in the BIOS.
Comments/Problems:
Installed in expert mode.
The installation seemed to go fine and the machine rebooted OK. With
both versions of the installer, even though I had chosen UTC NO in clock
setup during installation, 'date' did not give the correct time and was
off by our UTC offset. In looking at files, /etc/adjtime contained the
line UTC while /etc/default/rcS contained the line UTC=no (which seems
contradictory). Other than /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, I could find no
other instances of UTC/utc in any /etc files. As POST messages scrolled
by, about the time the system clock was being set, I did see something
about the clock timing out but could not find any message in either
dmesg output or /var/log/* relating to that.
If I set the clock to UTC in the BIOS, then the 'date' time was
correct. Because I will be installing Debian dual boot with Windows on
some machines, I will want the clock set to local time in the BIOS.
Windows was not installed while I was testing the Debian install on this
machine.
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Karen Larson, M.S., System Administrator
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin - Parkside
900 Wood Road, PO Box 2000, Kenosha, WI 53141-2000
262-595-2450, larson@cs.uwp.edu
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