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Bug#460659: marked as done (Installation report on HP Compaq 6720s)

Your message dated Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:02:46 +0100
with message-id <200801141302.47076.elendil@planet.nl>
and subject line Bug#460659: Installation report on HP Compaq 6720s
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: installation-reports
Version: 2.31
Severity: normal

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://mirror.home-dn.net/d-i/2.6.23/etch-custom-1013.iso - it
contains the experimental e1000 driver for using the netinstall
Date: <somewhere in late December 2007>

Machine: HP Compaq 6720s
Partitions:
# df -Tl
Filesystem    Typeblocchi di   1K   Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su
/dev/sda1 reiserfs     6835368   3759288   3076080  55% /
udev         tmpfs       10240       116     10124   2% /dev
/dev/sda1 reiserfs     6835368   3759288   3076080  55% /dev/.static/dev
none         tmpfs      774088         0    774088   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 reiserfs    70330328  22769204  47561124  33% /home
# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc7c87c0a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         851     6835626   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             852        9729    71312535    5  Extended
/dev/sda5             852         973      979902   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6             974        9729    70332538+  83  Linux
#


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [E]
Configure network:      [O]
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:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:

I've used a etch netinstall CD. Network at first didn't work, so I've tried an
unofficial image which included the experimental e1000 driver, needed for the
Ethernet card to work. Once booted with that image, installation went like a
charm! :) 

The only thing to note is: unfortunately I couldn't get my wireless card
[1] to work with opensource drivers (bcm43xx), but only with ndiswrapper + .inf.

[1] 10:00.0 0280: 14e4:4312 (rev 02), seen as "Network controller: Broadcom
Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 02)")

==============================================
Installer lsb-release:
==============================================
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="4.0 (installer build 20071013-01:44)"
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==============================================
Installer hardware-summary:
==============================================
Please see attached file.


Kindly,
David

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--- Begin Message --- 
On Monday 14 January 2008, David Paleino wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> I've used a etch netinstall CD. Network at first didn't work, so I've
> tried an unofficial image which included the experimental e1000 driver,
> needed for the Ethernet card to work. Once booted with that image,
> installation went like a charm! :)

That's just because the Etch kernel isn't recent enough for your hardware 
then. AFAIK the e1000 driver isn't really experimental anymore but is/will 
be fully supported with 2.6.23 or 2.6.24.

> The only thing to note is: unfortunately I couldn't get my wireless card
> [1] to work with opensource drivers (bcm43xx), but only with ndiswrapper
> + .inf.

That's outside the scope of the installer. The installer will automatically 
support wireless cards only if free drivers are available. Hopefully more 
drivers will become available in the future.

As your installation was basically successful and the only issue will be 
solved automatically when the installer switches to newer kernels, I'm 
closing your report. Thank you for submitting it and good luck with the new 
system.

Cheers,
FJP

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