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Bug#239826: marked as done ([i386] [beta3] [netinst] strangeness with partition resize, wrong fstab ordering, other minor issues)

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and subject line Closing old installation report #239826
has caused the Debian Bug report #239826,
regarding [i386] [beta3] [netinst] strangeness with partition resize, wrong fstab ordering, other minor issues
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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: Debian-Installer beta 3
uname -a: Linux gingko 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: Tue Mar 23 14:04:26 EST 2004
Method: 100MB netinst + base cd iso

Machine: Dell Optiplex GX240
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Root Device: IDE - hda5
Root Size/partition table: (output of df and cat /proc/partitions below)

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5               459143     73044    361602  17% /
/dev/hda1                97826      9237     83370  10% /boot
/dev/hda2             35941928  20925444  13190700  62% /home
/dev/hda9             12365340   1321660  10415544  12% /usr
/dev/hda3             23963956  17089616   5657016  76% /usr/local
/dev/hda8               233335      4133    216754   2% /tmp
/dev/hda7              2403496    133072   2148332   6% /var
tmpfs                   452692         0    452692   0% /dev/shm

major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq
   3     0   78177792 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 8471 38220 177502 36560 1873 3889 31656 31630 -2 667790 41671732
   3     1     104391 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 23 551 1148 660 8 1 18 70 0 570 730
   3     2   36515745 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 163 107 1794 2290 185 390 4592 1050 0 2450 3340
   3     3   24346507 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 22 56 258 180 17 7 168 110 0 290 290
   3     4          1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     5     489951 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 5190 26576 63532 11050 515 1749 4634 11780 0 11100 22830
   3     6    1461883 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 1 0 8 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
   3     7    2441848 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 181 128 2106 1830 789 1250 16328 12700 0 3360 14530
   3     8     248976 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 29 34 126 130 64 85 300 3830 0 900 3960
   3     9   12562798 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 2856 10750 108482 20320 295 407 5616 2090 0 17550 22410

Output of lspci: 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 12)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)


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:  [E]
Create file systems:    [E]
Mount partitions:       [E]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't
try it

Comments/Problems:

great job!  

first i'll address the E's i listed above:

this system was previously running red hat 9, and once i finally pried
it away from the previous owner, i immediately popped in the sarge
installer.  i had two previously existing partitions that i wanted to
preserve during the install, /home and /usr/local, which are hda2 and
hda3 respectively.

so, i deleted all the other partitions, tried to resize hda3 a little
larger but changed my mind and hit cancel (in case it's significant),
created the new partitions, and chose "write changes to disk".

i was then prompted with the following error, twice:

	Not Yet Implemented!

	This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout.  Parted can't
	resize this (yet).

i was a little confused because i wasn't trying to resize any
partitions, perhaps my mucking with resizing options left some variable
set that should have been unset?  also, both hda2 and hda3 are ext3,
though i don't imagine that makes much of a difference.

anyway, it didn't prevent the rest of the installation from continuing,
and for the most part it went without a hitch.  however, upon rebooting, i
noticed that /usr/local wasn't mounted.  some testing revealed that
this was because /usr/local was listed before /usr in /etc/fstab, so
i'm guessing the call to mount failed because the mountpoint /usr/local
did not yet exist since /usr wasn't yet mounted.

it'd probably be a good idea for the script that generates fstab to do
some kind of sorting, placing the 1-level-deep mount points before the
2-level-deep mountpoints and so on -- or maybe patch mountall.sh/mount
to procede in that order.  i imagine this would also have been
a problem if i had set up a /var/log which was placed before /var etc.

the /usr/local thing was the only serious hitch that i encountered.  the
rest of this report is more general impressions / nitpicking:

- when selecting mountpoints, it'd be nice if previously selected
  mountpoints shouldn't show up in the list of optional mountpoints.
  that is, if i've already selected hda5 to be /usr, /usr shouldn't show
  up as an option when i'm editing hda6.

- it'd be nice if when you select "format this partition" that the
  filesystem type defaults to something reasonable, like ext3 (which i
  imagine would be the choice most of the time anyway)

- when specifying partition size, it'd be nice if default value was
  blanked out when the user typed in a size.  that is, if it says

  partition size: 17.4 GB
  
  and i type 200 MB, it'd be nice if it automatically blanked out the
  previously existing input.  i'm guessing that this probably isn't
  possible and is more a limitation of the menu system being used for
  the installer... feel free to ignore/scoff-at this one.

- an "experts only" option to use cfdisk/fdisk would be nice, though of
  course nothing would keep me from c-a-f2'ing to a shell and doing that
  myself (by the way, thanks much for arrows and tab completion in
  the installer shell!).  now that i think about it, if i did do the
  latter, would i have to get the installer to somehow refresh it's
  partition information?

- the partition symbols are a bit confusing, allbeit really cute.
  perhaps room could be made in the page for a key of some sort?  or
  perhaps a "help" option could be added to the bottom of the menu which
  would take the user to a page with a key and some other helpful
  information?

- a bootsplash would be nice for the default grub install.

- it'd be nice if you could remove pcmcia stuff on non-pcmcia systems
  like in the woody installer

- that's it!  i'll be getting some ultrasparc's in the coming weeks, and
  i'll give them a try -- though i notice there's only the 30MB iso for
  that.  any reason why?
  

anyway, once more, great job with the installer.  if i can provide any
more information or assistance, let me know.


	sean

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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


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