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Bug#402576: marked as done (installation-report: thinkpad t21 installation results)

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: netinst 
Image version: rc 1
Date: 2006/12/10

Machine: IBM Thinkpad T21
Processor: 900 Mhz Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Memory: 192 Mb
Partitions: (manual) (seperate partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, swap, /var, /home)

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:

(will follow up with this next time i'm in front of the laptop)


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [E]
Configure network:      [E]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

The only "OMG" show stopper was that the system is using the
wrong driver for my wireless card.  on boot up, the system will
hard lock after loading the hostap/hostap_cs drivers for my
card.  my solution was to boot up w/out the card, and
blacklist the hostap/hostap_cs modules (instead, the orinoco
and orinico_cs are now used, which work).


some other issues i've noticed that should probably get some
attentions:

- i got like 3 ispell-related prompts during installation.

the first two asked the same question, about choosing between
"american english" and "manual symlinks", the third time i
was also given the choice of "british english".

- i got a rather confusing prompt from swsusp during installation

from the source package:

Template: uswsusp/continue_without_swap
Type: boolean
Default: true
_Description: Continue without a valid swap partition?
 The swap partition that was found in uswsusp's configuration file is not
 active. In most cases this means userspace software suspend will not work for
 you and you will need to choose (or let uswsusp choose) another partition.
 In some corner cases however, this can be what you want.

i'm not sure if this is default behaviour or the result of my using a 
previously created swap partition, but the text and meaning of the 
prompt wasn't quite clear and probably not appropriate for a default 
laptop install.  furthermore, there was no option available to
choose a swap partition, or back up, and it was also not clear what
unselecting the option would do.

- apt-key related errors on first update

it seems the installer isn't installing apt with the latest archive key.
screenshot (update-manager.png) attached.

- unnecessary prompt from the console-data-common package

the "choose keymap (default: don't touch)" prompt really .shouldn't
be in the default installation path

- useless nm-applet in gnome environment

my laptop was installed via wireless eth1.  the nm-applet installed with
the etch install does not detect the wireless card (i get no options
for it, anyway), and when running it i get a greyed out option of "wired network" 
which i can not select.  this might just be greyed out because there's no
attached cable?

- suspend/hibernate don't work out of the box.

maybe this is related to the swsusp issue i mentioned above?  acpi/hal/whatever
were correctly detecting the lid closing event (and locking the screen), but if
i changed the event action to be "suspend" or "hibernate", nothing happens.


some other "wishlist" type items:

- the laptop/desktop installs should put the normal user into sudoers maybe?

- the installer doesn't attempt to read existing filesystem labels.

i was installing on a laptop that was previously running etch/sid, and
i wanted to keep /home untouched, and i had to do some manual inspection
to find which one was /home.  since d-i supports creating fs's with labels,
it would be really nice to read the labels of fs's after reading the partition table.

- in the partitioning step, an option to list fs contents/information

- there were updates immediately available for download, i'm guessing this will go
  away once the installer syncs up with etch?

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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


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