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- Subject: [i386] [20040726] [netinst] success, although with some remarks
- From: Shot <shot@hot.pl>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:37:02 +0200
- Message-id: <20040728203702.GA19456@chastell.shot.pl>
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20040725/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux desaxe 2.6.7-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 8 05:08:04 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2004-07-26, past 21:00 CEST
Method: `expert26 vga=0x317` install, booting from CD, network install of sarge from http://ftp.debian.org/, unproxied
Machine: IBM ThinkPad R31
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1066MHz
Memory: 384 MB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda, FUJITSU MHT2060AT (a 60 GB disk)
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 20325 10243768+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 114343 116280 976752 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 * 20326 21294 488376 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 21295 114342 46896192 8e Linux LVM
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 447M 139M 285M 33% /
tmpfs 186M 0 186M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/main-home 36G 39M 36G 1% /home
/dev/mapper/main-tmp 1,0G 33M 992M 4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/main-usr 6,0G 857M 5,2G 14% /usr
/dev/mapper/main-var 2,0G 476M 1,6G 24% /var
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 42)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)
0000:01:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
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: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
1. I chose Polish version, and not everything is translated yet (I used the
expert mode, though, so I don't know what part of the not-translated stuff
is seen by the usual audience).
2. Partitions. I decided to learn about LVM. I thought that if I leave /boot
on its own partition, I can have everything else on the LVM partition (as
per [1]). Unfortunately, it turned out that in d-i I can't have / on a LVM
partition, so I decided on a single / partition (/dev/hda3). I understand that
everything not going into LVM's /home, /tmp, /usr and /var goes there, right?
Including /boot?
[1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/upgradetolvmroot.html
Now as I look at it, GRUB is told to mount it read-only; is this the reason
of four "Unable to unlink device" errors after each shutdown and four ReiserFS
checks at boot (each ending with something like "partition cleanly unmounted")?
Side question: on my workstation (woody dist-upgraded to sid, kernel 2.4.18)
I have /var/log/boot* files; where are the boot logs kept now (2.6 kernel)?
3. Packages. I wanted to have a minimal install, but Polish version tries to
install by default kde-i18n-pl and openoffice.org-l10n-pl; as you can imagine,
this means a lot of packages being fetched and installed due to dependencies.
Also, I think the gs package was selected by default, which ended on a lot of
X packages being required even after I "unchecked" the -pl packages. Same goes
for the libxft1 and xfonts-biznet* packages being a part of the default,
minimal install.
The "unchecking" was a different issue, in fact. If I skipped the selecting
packages step, the installer wanted to apt-get install all of the -pl and
gs/libxf1/etc. dependencies. When I decided to select packages by hand,
I could resign from the unwanted ones in aptitude, but after quitting aptitude
the installer once again called apt-get to fetch the uwanted, additional stuff.
4. Modules. I'm a frequent reader of the debian-user mailing list, but
otherwise I wouldn't know I have to add the psmouse and pcspkr lines to
/etc/modules to "have mouse" and "have beeps". I understand that some people
don't use mouse/don't want to hear the beeper, but I think that for the benefit
of majority a Debconf question should be added to ask the user whether he wants
to use the mouse/beeper or not, maybe even with defaulting to "yes".
Same goes fot APM/ACPI. I don't know a bit about them (yet), but somehow
previously my laptop "went to sleep" when I closed the cover, while now
it doesn't seem to do it, and there's neither apm or acpi in /etc/modules.
5. Sound. As with the power management, I've yet to understand how sound
works under Linux, but I thought I'll have ALSA installed (as opposed to OSS);
I've even got a Debconf question about alsa-mixer saving the setting between
reboots. Instead, after installing GNOME I have two tabs in the Volume Control
program - one with working sliders called "Analog Devices AD1881A [OSS Mixer]",
and a second, totally empty, called "Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Modem [Alsa Mixer]".
Am I right in assuming I'm still using OSS?
6. Framebuffer. This one is of a rather wishlist priority, but it would be
nice if d-i could either somehow check by itself what is the best vga mode
for the machine or ask the user. Of course, it would also be great if d-i
could understand that if I run it with "vga=0x317", then this is the desired
parameter to (give GRUB to) pass to the kernel at boot time.
I know that this looks like a long list of grieves, but in fact I love the new
d-i so much I'm really looking forward to reinstalling Debian on my workstation
(I'd like to have LVM there as well, y'see). Thank you for your great work!
Cheers,
-- Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
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