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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Debian-installer fails, tries to use undetected and uninstalled hardware
- From: ketil <ketil_v@c2i.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 09:03:10 +0200
- Message-id: <4072562E.70800@ketil.homeunix.net>
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Got the image from the Norwegian mirror april 5. 2004
uname -a: 2.4.25-1-386 (the kernel the installer got)
Date: april 4. 5. and 6. 2004
Method: Booted from disks, network install from http://us.debian.org and no.debian.org. No proxy
Machine: Digital Venturis 5100
Processor: 100MHz PI
Memory: 90 MB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1: ReiserFS, 600 MB, mounted as /
/dev/hda2: SWAP, 50 MB
Also got another disk installed, /dev/hdc, but it's a 80GB that caused troubles when installed as hda. 500 MB of it will be used as cache when the system is running.
Output of lspci: Unable to install lspci before the system fails.
Base System Installation Checklist:
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: [e]
Install boot loader: [e]
Reboot: [o]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
There is two strange things about the installer, blocking my ability to install Debian:
Why on earth does the installer report that it does not have PCMCIA - packages? - If it DOES install PCMCIA, that itself is a grave bug, since no part of the computer is able to run anything remotely similar to PCMCIA.
If I continue the install, the installer halts when unloading USB modules. The computer was made many years before USB, the only thing it can probe is a undetected 3c509 network card. It don't got any USB modules either. In fact, I have newer heard of any 16-bits ISA - card (or ISA motherboard) with USB, so I am a bit confused...
After hardware detection, I took away the installation of all the wrongly detected hardware I found, ended up with "generic" motherboard and IDE modules. Dont know why it still insists on using PCMCIA and USB. I intend to use the computer as router / firewall, and will NEVER have PCMCIA or USB installed on a computer like this.
I really would like to have a more detailed selection setting than the "expert" setting.
The two issues above could have been avoided if given the ability to use a more detailed selection setting.
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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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