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Bug#308936: marked as done (NewWorld iMac install: success with usability/documentation comments)



Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:57:58 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #308936
has caused the Debian Bug report #308936,
regarding NewWorld iMac install: success with usability/documentation comments
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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: rc3, downloaded from debian.org
uname -a: Linux iMac3 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Thu Feb 24 14:15:19 CET 2005 ppc GNU/Linux
Date: 10.III.2005
Method: netinst image, boot from CD, packages downloaded from ftp.pl.debian.org

Machine: NewWorld iMac
Processor: PowerPC 233MHz
Memory: 92 MB
Root Device: IDE /dev/hda3
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1 - Apple partition
/dev/hda2 - /boot
/dev/hda3 - /
/dev/hda4 - swap
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O
0000:00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64 GT IIC] (rev 3a)
0000:00:14.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)

0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:10.0 ff00: 106b:0017
0000:00:12.0 0300: 1002:4756 (rev 3a)
0000:00:14.0 0c03: 1045:c861 (rev 10)

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]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:
Install went very smooth, altough I'm new to powerpc arch. My only problem related with booting was getting into OpenFirmware and working with it. Manual is very uninformative about it.

Those iMacs I'm installing Debian on have non-Apple USB keyboards and mouses. While I hadn't got time to check if mouse works, it's impossible to select non-mac keyboard while installing. I tried expert, but still i didn't had this option. I had to copy pl.kmap.gz to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz to make it work.
There should be an option to select keyboard layout from all available.

Also, after expert installation base-config was put in /etc/inittab on tty1. While the program itself worked well, once I finished base-config it was started again and again. I had to manually modify /etc/inittab. This didn't happen when I did normal install.

One last thing that annoys me. OF starts up its command line every boot and since I'm unfamiliar with !i386 I'm unable to make it boot hd:,\yaboot automaticaly. Option to set default boot device/file (for those archs that support it) with d-i (possibly as a part of "install bootloader" step) would be cool.

Apart from those bugs, d-i works just marvelous. Great work guys!

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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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