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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: installation-reports: Debian "Sarge" installation on Alpha (PWS 433au)
- From: Bob Tracy <rct@frus.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:58:06 -0600
- Message-id: <E1EpA6A-0000P1-KX@smirkin.frus.com>
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/alpha/bt-cd/ downloaded in Sept. 2005.
uname -a: Linux smirkin 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Tue Nov 22 17:12:59 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux
Date: 18 Dec 2005, 18:00 CST
Method: booted and installed from CD set
Machine: DEC Personal Workstation 433au
Processor: Alpha EV56, var. 7, rev. 0
Memory: 576 MB (six slots: 2x64, 4x128)
Root Device: SCSI - Model: RZ1CC-BA (C) DEC Rev: 883F at ID 0
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/sda: 4290 MB, 4290600960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 521 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
8 partitions:
# start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 1* 1* 0* ext2
b: 1* 10* 9* ext2 /boot
c: 10* 41* 30* ext2 /
d: 41* 72* 31* swap
e: 72* 193* 121* ext2 /tmp
f: 193* 376* 182* ext2 /var
g: 376* 522* 146* ext2 /home
Disk /dev/sdb: 18.2 GB, 18210037760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2213 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
3 partitions:
# start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 1* 1241* 1240* ext2 /usr
b: 1241* 2214* 973* ext2 /opt
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
0000:00:04.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corp. 82378ZB/IB, 82379AB (SIO, SIO.A) PCI to ISA Bridge (rev 43)
0000:00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: Digital Equipment Corporation PBXGB [TGA2] (rev 22)
0000:00:14.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 02)
0000:01:09.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. ISP1020 Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)
0000:00:03.0 0200: 1011:0019 (rev 30)
0000:00:04.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.0 0000: 8086:0484 (rev 43)
0000:00:0c.0 0300: 1011:000d (rev 22)
0000:00:14.0 0604: 1011:0024 (rev 02)
0000:01:09.0 0100: 1077:1020 (rev 05)
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]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
Comments/Problems:
First reboot following base system install failed because SRM attempted to
boot from previous boot device by default (the CD-ROM drive). Was able to
interrupt SRM boot (cntl-C) and perform default boot from first hard disk,
after which everything went smoothly.
Partitioning process was OK, but cumbersome. Although the needed information
is probably in the release notes and/or installation manual, it would have
been useful to have the partitioning application provide minimum and suggested
partition sizes based on configured mount points. Since this was my first
Debian installation, I assumed Debian couldn't possibly be any more bloated
than RedHat/Fedora and/or Mandriva, and everything worked out fine :-). With
the benefit of hindsight, I would have made my "/" partition slightly bigger
so as to support additional kernel module directories and such in "/lib".
Installation process should "suggest" far more strongly that people use the
task-based package selection process. Aptitude's interface is hardly
intuitive, and there should be a way to back up and correct the mistake of
thinking selecting individual packages is the way to go. Having made that
mistake, hitting <ctl><alt><del> was the closest thing to a soft recovery I
could have hoped for: the machine rebooted and the installation continued at
the appropriate point.
Instructions at bottom of template on how to submit installation report
resulted in report going to Debian's "junk" in-box. Now trying "reportbug."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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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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