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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Sarge-RC2
uname -a: Install failed
Date: -
Method: Boot from Sarge-RC2 NetInstall CD
Machine: -
Processor: Intel Pentium III 733MHz
Memory: 512MB
Root Device: IDE, Quantum Fireball+ 20G
Root Size/partition table: See below
Output of lspci and lspci -n: Install failed
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O+E]
Create file systems: [O+E]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O+E]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
First I tried with the following partition scheme:
128M /boot, First primary partition, Ext3, Boot-flag on
20G LVM Physical Volume, Second primary partition, Boot-flag off
20G VG
6G /, LV on VG, XFS
256M swap, LV on VG
Everything looked fine. On reboot, I got GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB printed
on the screen (for ever AFAIKT).
Then I tried with this setup:
20G /, First primary partition, Ext3, boot-flag on
384M swap, Second primary partition
NB: This is the partitioning scheme the installer sets up when telling
it to do it automatically.
This resulted in a working Debian system :) However, It's near
impossible to convert it to LVM and XFS (I'd need an other HD, etc).
It'd be nice if I the partitioner worked.
I also tried this:
256M swap, First primary partition
6GB /, Second primary partition, boot-flag on
This also results in the GRUB GRUB GrUB GRUB syndrome :(
Anyone able to install with any partition setup other than what the
installer sets up automatically?
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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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