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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 3-21-04 Sparc netboot snapshot. (http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/2004-03-21/sparc32/netboot/boot.img)
uname -a: Linux superbob 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004 sparc GNU/Linux
Date: Mar 21, 2004
Method: Netboot, rarp/tftp from my x86/sid workstation, squid cache
Machine: SparcStation 20
Processor: SuperSparc-II
Memory: 256M
Root Device: 9G SCA SCSI /dev/sda1
Root Size/partition table: 1G /, 512M swap, rest LVM
Output of lspci:
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
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: [ ]
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:
* Very nice. There were a few questions of questionable value (Keyboard
layout on a serial console), but excusable.
* Backing out of a "Finish partitioning" takes you back to the main menu
instead of back to the partitioner, losing your changes.
* The disk I used had an MSDOS partition table on it, which the partitioner
happilly used until I manually created a sun label with parted from a
shell. I don't know if an MSDOS partition table would have been bootable
so I just made the Sun label. It couldn't hurt to check for a valid
partition table for the subarch your installing onto, if it doesn't
allready.
* After install baseconfig came up and did it's thing, though init was
complaining about the gettys for the local console respawning because I
don't have a local console on this box.
* After base-config was done I didn't get login. No getty on the serial
port. I was able to ssh in and write this email, so all is well.
- Nick Lopez
spamtrap@glowingmonkey.org
-- Randomly selected signature --
"The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it
results in slower code, and it results in more bugs."
-- Linus Torvalds
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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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