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Bug#262410: marked as done (Installer bug report)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:42 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #262410
has caused the Debian Bug report #262410,
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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 2004-07-29 current from
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/

uname -a: Linux enoch.gear.dyndns.org 2.6.7-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 8 05:08:04
EDT 2004 i686 unknown
Date: 2004-07-30 19:30 AEST
Method: How did you install?  From CD
	What did you boot off?  From netboot CD
	If network install, from where? ftp.premium.planetmirror.com
	Proxied? No
Machine: Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro m/b
Processor: Athlon XP 2400+
Memory: 512 Mb DDR
Root Device: SATA
	hde: WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0, ATA DISK drive
	hdg: WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0, ATA DISK drive
Root Size/partition table:
	hde:	hde1 1 Gb Linux RAID autodetect
		hde2 4 Gb Linux RAID autodetect
		hde3 195 Gb Linux RAID autodetect
	hdg:	Same as hde
Output of lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
version?) (rev c1)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2
(rev c1)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5
(rev c1)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2
AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge
(rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
0000:01:07.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7861 (rev 01)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc.
IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be
IT8212, embedded seems (rev 10)
0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
[GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

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

Comments/Problems:

(Please read the following criticism as constructive, not flaming.)

When mounting the partitions, it gave me a warning that /boot and / are
not supported on software RAID.  I proceeded anyway, and it didn't
install GRUB or LILO correctly, and won't boot.

RED HAT HAVE SUPPORTED THIS SINCE RED HAT 7.3, including LVM since 8.0!
  Fedora Core 2 installs perfectly on this system.

Please do something about this - it is a serious problem.  Low end
servers nearly always come with two ATA or SATA drives (i've bought 6 of
them from Dell & Acer in the past year at work).  A two-drive setup with
RAID 1 mirroring is *essential* to support for any production server.
This has saved me so many times when drives have failed - without RAID
1, the system will crash and need to be restored from backup, whereas
with it, people don't even notice a drive has failed.

(BTW, please don't suggest hardware RAID as a solution to this.  The
above system is a home workstation for which i need to be able to swap
drives to other systems if a motherboard or power supply fails.  Linux
software RAID is the most effective way to achieve mirroring portably
across a wide range of hardware.)

I really want to convert to Debian - i am convinced of its value in the
package management area, and i strongly agree with its social contract,
but these sort of limitations are show-stoppers.

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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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