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Bug#340358: marked as done (installation-reports)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:07 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #340358
has caused the Debian Bug report #340358,
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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 07-Jun-2005 
(http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso)

uname -a: Linux orac 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Date: 22nd November 2005 - evening

Method: Netboot CD. Install from UK proxies (debian.org, mirror.ac.uk, blueyonder.co.uk)

Machine: IBM Netvista circa 2001 (acquired cheap, being used as destructible test server)

Processor: 1 GHz Pentium 3

Memory: 512 MB SDRAM 133MHz

Root Device: IDE 20GB ATA Seagate thing

Root Size/partition table: 
    /:         1GB; 
    /var:      1.5GB; 
    /tmp:      1.5GB; 
    /home:     1GB; 
    /usr:      4GB; 
    swap:      1GB; 
    /boot:     64MB 
    /usr/local:10GB (software RAIDED against another 10GB drive on other channel)

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:1130 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:1131 (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2440 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244b (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.2 0c03: 8086:2442 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:2443 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.4 0c03: 8086:2444 (rev 02)
0000:00:1f.5 0401: 8086:2445 (rev 02)
0000:01:08.0 0200: 8086:2449 (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 0300: 10de:002d (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:              [E] Failed at CD Mounting. FIX: Disable PIIX driver in expert set-up.
Load installer modules: [O] OK, once PIIX was ditched.
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O/E] Worked perfectly with 2.4 kernel. Major issue with 2.6. See comments.
Create file systems:    [O/E] "
Mount partitions:       [O/E] "
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [O]

Comments/Problems:

Boot started well, then froze as "Couldn't mount CD". A short period of Google
bashing and experimenting with DMA settings later, and the PIIX driver was
isolated as the problem. The fix was to boot in expert, jump straight to "Load
Installer Modules", remove PIIX, jump backwards and start again.

Once that was surmounted, everything was pretty flawless under the 2.4 kernel.
Under the 2.6 kernel, a strange problem started manifesting itself at the
partitioning stage. Everything went fine until going into The RAID
configuration dialogue, but after clicking on "Final", the system gradually
got slower and slower and slower over a period of time, to the point where
the install became protractedly painful to sit through. Tried ps-ing in the
F2 shell, but no top, so no detailed info. At this point I was labouring
under the silly misconception that the 2.6 kernel was required for a 2.6
system. Once I was disabused of that notion, I went through again and the
whole thing took only about 15 minutes.

I must confess to being a confirmed Gentoo fiend, but couldn't be bothered
with the source procedure for a cheap server which might expire at a given
instant, and wanted to try something new. I'd always meant to investigate
Debian as some friends swear by it. Apart from the strange slowing, I'm very
impressed. Really like Aptitude.

I've used SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake (when it was), Knoppix, Gentoo and now
Debian and, while Gentoo is still my favourite (it was the one which originally
rescued me from arbitrary decision hell), Debian's jumped right up there into
second spot. Give it a few weeks and even that might change.

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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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