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Bug#377971: marked as done (sid-daily and gtk-miniiso on a iMac G5 (powerpc))

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:15 +0000
with message-id <E1OtBnb-0005E6-5n@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #377971
has caused the Debian Bug report #377971,
regarding sid-daily and gtk-miniiso on a iMac G5 (powerpc)
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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package: installation-reports

Hi,

on Saturday, July 1st, I tested d-i on an iMac G5 
(http://www.apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=imac_g5&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC), 
which has a PPC970FX cpu with 1.8 ghz. As the owner (he's a OSX fan...) 
didn't really want to install linux on it, we went for stopping at the 
partitioning step :-)

The gtk20060630mini.iso didn't had a install64 boot image, so it didnt boot.
Colin had daily build gtk images (also powerpc64 ones), it booted, but they 
endlessly looped with a directfb error message.

So we then booted the daily build netinst from 2006-06-30 cd image with 
install64. From the beginning the background screen was red, not blue. 

The module usbkbd not found at the end of boot.

The network detection found 2 ethernet interfaces (wired ethernet and 
firewire, wireless was not found (airport-extreme/bcm43xx only available in 
>=2.6.17)), but there was no indication which interface is which. (If there 
is no bug for this already I would consider this as valuable to track and 
fix.) This is a usability issue.

Also the user was surprised that all drives were labeled as scsi in partman, 
while in reality they where sata (internal) and three external firewire.
Again, a usability issue - I guess this has been reported already?

There we stopped and rebooted. Surprisingly his custom boot logo (he replaced 
the apple image which shows up right after powering on with something else) 
was gone! I was (am still am) quite surprised about this data loss.


processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 13
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 600.000
cache size      : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat 
clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips        : 1198.05

0000:f0:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. U3L AGP Bridge
0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX 
Go5200] (rev a1)
0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta PCI Bridge
0001:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta PCI Bridge
0001:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta PCI Bridge
0001:01:01.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
0001:01:07.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta Mac I/O
0001:01:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:01:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:01:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0001:02:0c.0 IDE interface: Broadcom K2 SATA
0001:02:0d.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta IDE
0001:02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. Shasta Firewire
0001:03:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. Shasta (Sun GEM)

dmesg, partman, report-hw and syslog are available upon request.


I will visit him again in the end of July or beginning of August, to repeat 
these tests. Then I will also make sure to send the report immediatly, to 
remember some details (like the exact symptoms/errors with the gtk-image) 
better.

regards,
	Holger

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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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