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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r2-i386-CD-1.iso
Date: 13 Jan 08
Machine: HP Omnibook 3000 Laptop
Processor: 200 MHz Intel
Memory: 80 Mbyte
Partitions: 8 Gbyte ext2 boot partition; 200 Mbyte Linux swap; small
laptop hibernation partition; 11 Gbyte ext2 non-boot
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
not possible
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [E]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Laptop has only a WIFI networking option and the driver is not
available during install. Hence no network detect/configure and
no real outputs copied into this mail.
Boot from CD no problem at all. During install it failed to
detect the IDE CDROM drive. Following hints in installation guide
and so on, I disabled DMA and this helped a bit. Flaky detection
and mounting of CDROM drive, but errors on reading. Using the
all-generic-ide boot option gave easy detection/mount of the CDROM
drive but the same failure to read the CDROM reliably.
Errors are something like 'Media error (bad sector)', 'DriveReady
SeekComplete Error', 'Buffer I/O error on device hdc', ...
Failure is not immediate. Some small stuff seems to be read correctly
from the CDROM. From a shell (alt-f2) I can read the files on the
CDROM comfortably.
Checking integrity of the CDROM fails at about 60%, always in the
same file. I've checked that file's md5sum on another computer
and it is not corrupted.
The Woody installation CDs I downloaded in 2005 work fine - I can
re-install Woody whenever I want. Hence I believe the CDROM drive
is working properly.
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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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