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Bug#387381: marked as done (Instllation Report for New Debian Installer on WinXP SP2 + VMware 5.5.1)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:18 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #387381
has caused the Debian Bug report #387381,
regarding Instllation Report for New Debian Installer on WinXP SP2 + VMware 5.5.1
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD image
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Completed at Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:51 (UTC)

Machine: VMware Workstation 5.5.1 running on Windows XP SP2
Processor: Pentium4 550 (3.4GHz)
Memory: 256MB for guest
Partitions: please see below; /dev/hda2 is formatted for reiserfs
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disk /dev/hda: 12.8 GB, 12884901888 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1566 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          66      530113+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2              67         309     1951897+  83  Linux
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)
00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)

# lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 01)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 01)
00:07.0 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 08)
00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 08)
00:0f.0 0300: 15ad:0405
00:10.0 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 10)
00:11.0 0401: 1274:1371 (rev 02)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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:                 [O]

Comments/Problems:

Installation was made through GUI with C locale, where the country was
set to Japan.  No additional packages were installed by tasksel for my
preference.  The graphical installer basically worked okay for me, but
I would like to give some comments:

* The user interface for manual partitioning is much far from intuitive.
  This may make those who have not experienced the console installer be
  in trouble over understanding usage.

* Option for skipping creation of a normal user is wanted, because some
  situations (e.g. users managed by LDAP or NIS) require no local users
  to be created.

* It is strange for me that both 2.6.16-2-686 and 2.6-686 are presented
  as choice for the kernel to be installed, since they seem exactly the
  same (i.e. both are linux-image-2.6.16-2-686).

* It would be better if prompt is made to ask whether the user wants to
  keep (or remove) apt-line for CD-ROM installation.

* I think the hardware clock should be assumed to be set for local time
  zone, not UTC, especially for a dual-boot system with Windows.

* It should be informed, in a way typical users can easily notice, that
  the pciutils package is needed for the lspci command.  I had to spend
  several minutes to find this issue in making this report.

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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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