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Bug#377972: marked as done (sid-daily and gtk-miniiso on a pismo notebook (powerpc) - some of general remarks)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:15 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #377972,
regarding sid-daily and gtk-miniiso on a pismo notebook (powerpc) - some of general remarks
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package: installation-reports

Hi,

on Saturday, July 1st, we also tested d-i on pismo notebook (also know as "g3 
firewire" see 
http://www.apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallery&model=pg3sfirewire&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC), 

The 20060630mini.iso gui-started, crashed, looped. (The mouse pointer also had 
a square background.)

The 20060701 from wouter builds gui-started and froze, with video=ofonly 
looped (similar to the 20060630mini.iso)


The daily build from 2006-06-30 non-gtk worked, and had a blue background 
during installation :)

In configure network all network devices were detected, the wireless one is 
labeled as 802.x, so it's recognizable (as opposed to the non recognizable 
firewire ethernet...) - and it was selected automatically as no cable was 
connected, nice!

Interestingly only the left alt-key (with the need for also using the 
fn-button) worked to switch the consoles..., but after the installation all 
is normal, that is both alt-keys are fine for switching consoles and the 
fn-key is not needed.

Another thing that strangely only happend once (we had to restart many times 
as the battery was empty and the power supply flaky...): during configure 
harddisc a menu for pcmcia options pops up. This is slightly confusing, 
because though the machine has pcmcia, there were no pcmcia cards used (and 
therefore also no pcmcia harddrives in the machine.)

Then we were not asked if we wanted to create a normal user. 

Also I noted that I didnt have to select a kernel to be installed, nice. With  
the miboot-floppies i need to select a kernel for the final system.

The german "select mirror" templates are translated inconsistently: "einen 
Netzwerkspiegel verwenden" and "Land the Debian-Archiv-Spiegelservers".
(Besides that I'm still unconvinced that "Netzwerkspiegel" and "Spiegelserver" 
are useful translations...)

From popularity-contest question on (til the end IIRC) there were localisation 
issues: the titles of the text-boxes were not translated, the content was.

The laptop-task was preselected, yay - nice!

The download-progress bar is very nice too, but unfortunatly there is no 
cancel button. (Which sucks, when you select the desktop task and are not 
aware how much you need to download for this and dont have that much time at 
the moment...)

The rest of the installation went fine, the system booted into linux. (I plan 
to repeat this test with a macos9 and another one with a macosx installation, 
which should be kept, as well.)

But the system time was set incorrectly to January 1st, 1904.

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

processor       : 0
cpu             : 740/750
temperature     : 43-45 C (uncalibrated)
clock           : 500MHz
revision        : 131.0 (pvr 0008 8300)
bogomips        : 995.32
machine         : PowerBook3,1
motherboard     : PowerBook3,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as     : 70 (PowerBook Pismo)
pmac flags      : 0000001f
L2 cache        : 1024K unified
memory          : 1024MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld

0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 
AGP 2x (rev 02)
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI
0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 02)
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:1a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1211
0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth FireWire (rev 
01)
0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) 
(rev 01)

I also have a complete copy of /var/log available.

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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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