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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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