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Linux psylocke 2.4.25 #3 Wed Mar 17 08:26:02 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 15 Mar 2004, 10:00 am EST (begin)
Method: Boot from installer CD. Installed base system and packages via
ftp. (ftp.debian.org) Install route was ethernet through firewall router
to cable modem (Road Runner) to internet.
Machine: Custom built beige box.
Motherboard: Asus A7V
Processor: Athlon Thunderbird 1200 MHz
Memory: 384 MB PC-133
Root Device: First System Disk (/dev/hda)
hda: WDC WD307AA-00BAA0, ATA DISK drive (from dmesg)
It is a Western Digital 30 GB ATA-66 disk.
Root Size/partition table:
>From fdisk:
Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30758289408 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59598 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1040 524128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1041 1105 32760 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 * 1106 2145 524160 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 2146 59598 28956312 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2146 3185 524128+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 3186 43820 20480008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 43821 52142 4194256+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 52143 59598 3757792+ 83 Linux
>From df:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 524108 114208 409900 22% /
/dev/hda2 31721 9450 20633 32% /boot
/dev/hda8 3757672 41724 3715948 2% /home
/dev/hda7 4194124 63936 4130188 2% /opt
/dev/hda6 20479376 6416188 14063188 32% /usr
/dev/hda3 524140 110856 413284 22% /var
tmpfs 192968 0 192968 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hde1 14981992 12910672 2071320 87% /winshare
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
(rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 22)
00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10)
00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10)
00:04.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 30)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev
08)
00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port
(rev 08)
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
(rev 30)
00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265
(rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
5200] (rev a1)
Base System Installation Checklist:
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]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Reboot error appears to be mostly operator error. Had never installed on
a
drive this big before (30 GB) Both Grub and LILO freaked out on me until
I made the boot partition.
My only comment of a negative nature is that when the system is doing
long
background tasks (newfs, etc..) it would be nice to see some sign of
activity.
Probably because I work on Solaris and am accustomed to the little
spinning
cursor whenever the system is thinking about something. I'm not asking
for a
progress bar or anything like that, just something to break up that
plain blue
screen a little bit. (Those of us that have escaped from the Windows
world are
still a little paranoid about blue screens. ha-ha)
This was a Windows replacement install. I have been running Debian for
some time
on this machine on another drive and my laptop from work. I could no
longer think
of any reason to waste my disk space with Windows as I no longer
required it for
any tasks that I could not perform in Debian. That takes this system
from triple-
booting Win2k-FreeBSD-Debian to Debian-FreeBSD. I feel so much cleaner
now when I
turn on my machine. Keep up the great work!
Alan Yerington
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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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