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- Subject: [d-i-alpha] debian-installer report
- From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 18:28:10 +0100
- Message-id: <20040516172810.GB5965@deprecation.cyrius.com>
Package: installation-reports
----- Forwarded message from "B. Peccatte" <benoit.peccatte@tele2.fr> -----
From: "B. Peccatte" <benoit.peccatte@tele2.fr>
Subject: debian-installer report
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 19:20:12 +0200
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
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I tried to install an alpha station using the debian installer. Here are the
problems I noticed. Note that I still can't get to the end of the
installation process.
Note that I've got a 1GB hard drive and 72MB of RAM and I'm using the french
translation for installation.
I want to boot from network as I've got nothing else to boot : no CD drive and
the flopppy drive is not working properly. I setup tftp and bootp server.
Then I don't know how to get a bootable kernel as the debian installer build
produces a vmlinuz which isn't directly bootable from the network on alpha.
I got a correct one thanks Steve Langasek.
When it comes to network hardware detection, I see that more than half of the
time is spent detecting ide and scsi devices (it's a bit long on my old
alpha) moreover this will be done again later. Then I get a problem with my
network card, it's due to the 2.4 kernel which doesn't handle 21040 properly
(tulip driver). Hopefully I got another one.
Then its comes to partitionning, first the help on lvm isn't translated in
french. Then I couldn't install in lvm because I couldn't find any way to
create a physical volume. I chose to partition the disk by hand.
Something weird is that the menu label saying that we're finished with
partitioning is a the top of the menu.
Well it was my second try and after modifing nothing except affecting / to the
first partition, I get a warning message asking me if I wanted to validate
changes on hard drive partition. Pretty disturbing.
As a note for french translators, there is a {MOUNT_POINT} in the formating
progress bar, I think a $ is missing.
After this I typed "df" in the console just to see what was happening and I
saw that I got about 100 000TB in hard drive and about 6 000TB in an shm
partition !!
There is also an apt-get install e2fsprog libc6.1 ... which doesn't have any
progress bar, this is dirturbing to have a blue screen to look for, waiting
for a movement.
Moreover note that in case of error, go back and continue often have the same
meaning, I couldn't see the differences.
Here starts the problems I tried multiple times, but it fails here : after
downloading packages it produces an error on the third console and never goes
farther. Substiancially, it says :
ln : /target/usr/bin/awk : file exists
/target/dev/pts no such file or directory
/target/dev/shm no such file or directory
/target/proc/bus/usb no such file or directory
Note that /target/proc isn't mounted.
I hope this wasn't too long and that it can be useful for you.
I don't know which of these are bugs or my fault, so I give it to you as a
pack. May I fill bugs for some ?
All I can't say is that this installer is a great job and I will be happy to
try it again.
Have a good day
B. Peccatte
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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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