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Bug#314838: marked as done (Installation report (delayed submission from 5-24-05))



Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:00 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #314838
has caused the Debian Bug report #314838,
regarding Installation report (delayed submission from 5-24-05)
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports
Version: RC3

Debian-installer-version:
    netinst RC3, downloaded on 15-Apr-2005 from:

http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
      File info:
    03-Apr-2005  23:10  104M

uname -a:
Linux HPPAVix 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:01:58 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Date:
    24-May-2005  09:38:43

Method:
    Installed from netinst CD

Machine:
    Hewlett Packard Pavilion 8766C (modified):
	CD-RW:		Mitsumi CR-4804TE
	DVD-ROM:	Samsung SD-612B
	video:		nVidia Vanta (RIVA TNT2 64)
	sound:		Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value
	NIC:		HP (Accton) EN1207D-TX, PCI 10/100
	Motherboard:	ASUS Apollo Pro 133A
	BIOS:		Award (Medallion v6.00) rev 2.00
			Plug and Play extension v1.0A
	Northbridge:	VIA VT82C694X
	Southbridge:	VIA VT82C596B
	Hard disks:	Quantum Fireball lct20 (40.0GB)
			Western Digital Caviar WD1600BB (160.0GB)
	ADSL modem:	SpeedStream 5100B (router/PPPoE onboard)
	Monitor:	KDS VS-190p

Processor:
    Pentium III Coppermine, 902.15 MHz

Memory:
    384 MiB, PC133 SDRAM DIMMs (128 MiB bank0, 256 Mib bank1)

Root Device:
    IDE  /dev/hda  (Quantum Fireball lct20, 40.0 GB)

Root Size/partition table:
    Output from 'fdisk -l /dev/hda':

    Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/hda1               1          62      497983+  16  Hidden FAT16
/dev/hda2 63 793 5871757+ 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 * 794 3284 20008957+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    /dev/hda4            3285        4866    12707415    5  Extended
/dev/hda5 3285 3348 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/hda6            3349        3412      514048+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/hda7            3413        4866    11679223+  83  Linux

Linux '/' mounted on /dev/hda7; 'swap' on /dev/hda5. Other partitions are for other OSes. Please note that this Linux partition is temporary because the installer would not recognize the hard disk controller card (PCI device) to which the drive where I wanted to place Debian is connected (see below).

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
  lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 0000:00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23) 0000:00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 0000:00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 11) 0000:00:04.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30) 0000:00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 0000:00:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) 0000:00:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT302 (rev 01) 0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX (rev 10) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15)

  lspci -n
    0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:0691 (rev c4)
    0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:8598
    0000:00:04.0 0601: 1106:0596 (rev 23)
    0000:00:04.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 10)
    0000:00:04.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 11)
    0000:00:04.3 0600: 1106:3050 (rev 30)
    0000:00:09.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 08)
    0000:00:09.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 08)
    0000:00:0b.0 0104: 1103:0006 (rev 01)
    0000:00:0c.0 0200: 1113:1211 (rev 10)
    0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:002c (rev 15)

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O] (see below)
Partition hard drives:  [O] (see below)
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O] (see below)
Reboot:                 [O]

Comments/Problems:

[NOTE: I installed Debian nearly a month ago, but, being a newbie, did not know how to configure it to access my POP3 email account. A series of delays has prevented me from being able to work on the computer since then, so that I still didn't have Mozilla installed on the Windows partitions until today. I tried to submit this report using a web interface provided by my ISP, but it bounced back because of improper formatting. Today I discovered I had to have "pseudo-headers" not only for "Package:", but also for "Version:"; the debian-installer documentation didn't say anything about the second pseudo-header!]

My intention was to upgrade hardware (sound card, memory, extra HD) and install 5 operating systems (including Debian). My machine is old enough that LBA48 is not built-in. I bought a Western Digital 160GB drive not realizing that I could not simply "plug it in", and then had to buy a PCI hard disk controller. Not wanting to pour too much money into this old machine, I bought a cheap, non-RAID, Highpoint Rocket 133SB controller (HPT302 chipset). I posted a message to the 'debian-user' listserv asking about it, and a helpful person posted source code from the 2.6 kernel suggesting that there was support for HPT302 devices in the kernel. Everything went perfectly with the install process except for one thing: I meant to install Debian to my new hard drive, which has to be attached to the Highpoint controller. The kernel on the installer CD _FAILED_ to recognize the controller, so I was unable to install Debian to the new drive. I installed Debian to the old drive instead, and now I'm facing the difficulty of having to transfer Debian to the new drive. The crazy thing is that the CD installed a kernel that _DOES_ recognize the HPT302 device, and I was able to use Debian's FDISK to partition the big drive and install Windows XP there! As a newbie, I'm struggling to learn just the basics of using Linux. It will take me some time to learn enough to be able to move Debian to the partitions on the new drive, where I would like it to reside. Here is the partitioning scheme I have set up on the new drive, just waiting for me to learn enough to be able to transfer Debian there:

Disk /dev/hdg: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdg1               1          83      666666    6  FAT16
/dev/hdg2              84         133      401625   83  Linux
/dev/hdg3   *         134        7674    60573082+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdg4            7676       19457    94638915    5  Extended
/dev/hdg5            7676        7712      297171   83  Linux
/dev/hdg6            7713        8990    10265503+  83  Linux
/dev/hdg7            8991        9623     5084541   83  Linux
/dev/hdg8            9624       10901    10265503+  83  Linux
/dev/hdg9           10902       18440    60556986   83  Linux
/dev/hdg10          18441       19457     8169021   83  Linux

Two partitions (hdg1, hdg3) are for use with other OSes.  The rest are
intended for Debian.
  I'm ultimately planning to use the following arrangement:

	/		hdg5
	/boot		hdg2
	/usr		hdg6
	/tmp		hdg7
	/var		hdg8
	/home		hdg9
	[data]		hdg10

At the moment, I don't know enough to be able to make this move.

Also, when 'grub' installed and the installer process rebooted for the first time, a message came up saying that there was "no active partition detected". Thinking that the install had failed, I used FreeDOS FDISK to set a Windows partition (hda3) to "active" and rebooted, expecting Windows ME to boot. Instead, the grub menu appeared, and all has been well since then. A very curious thing, I thought!


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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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