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Bug#271492: marked as done (INSTALL REPORT for Axil 320)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:39 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #271492
has caused the Debian Bug report #271492,
regarding INSTALL REPORT for Axil 320
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version:
 Daily build downloaded 10/9 ~12:30 from
 http://p.d.o/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/sparc32/netboot/boot.img
uname -a: Linux spark 2.4.26-sparc32 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:18:47 PDT 2004 sparc GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-09-10
Method:
 Net boot with rarpd and tftpd.
 I installed from ftp.fi.debian.org without a proxy.
Machine: Axil 320 (SPARCstation 10 or 20 clone)
Processor: "ROSS HyperSparc RT625 or RT626"
Memory: 64 MB
Root Device: SCSI, SEAGATE ST34520N
Root Size/partition table:
 /dev/sda1 Linux native ext2 /boot
 /dev/sda2 Linux native ext3 /
 /dev/sda3 Whole disk   (extended?)
 /dev/sda4 Linux swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n: No PCI stuff available.

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

Initial boot worked:    [E]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [E]
Detect CD:              [ ]
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:

I first tried doing a netinstall with floppies but it always failed when
loading the root disk. It said "cramfs: bad magic" and that it couldn't mount
rootfs. I tried several times with different floppies. Net boot worked without
a hitch.

After getting an IP address from my DHCP-server netcfg looped through the IP retrieval over and over.
The syslog revealed that it couldn't find mii-diag. I downloaded it and made it available but syslog
still said that the network was unavailable. Strange, it just managed to get an IP. I think it is
because my NIC hasn't got MII. I ended up replacing the netcfg binary with a script doing "return 0"
and it worked fine.

I choose to load an extra installer module (ssh-client) but the ssh-client didn't work because of some
missing libraries (libgcrypt and libutil). It worked when I put those libs in /lib.

It would be nice if the partitioner could warn that /boot has to be in the first 1 GB of the disk
for silo to work.

I selected to install the 2.4.27-1-sparc32-smp kernel but it failed to boot. The problem looks very
much like the one I had with the floppies, it says "cramfs: bad magic" and that it can't mount rootfs.
Are there some issues with initrd or something? After going back to the kernel that d-i uses
(2.4.26-sparc32) it all worked well.

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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