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Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: 'Etch' from August 3, 2006
Date: August 5, 2006
Machine: IBM Thinkpad T60
Processor: Pentium M
Memory: 1,5 GB
Partitions:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
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: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
This is a feature request. I tried to use the first 'etch' CD
as rescue boot system for a server system which went limbo.
My hope was that only keyboard / mouse input was blocked
and i could still ssh or telnet into it. So this is not about recovering
a system on the same machine, but on a remote one.
I'm talking about the stage when network is configured, but no
base system is installed yet. (Before the reboot)
So far the installer worked well, but i there were no ssh or telnet
included. Not even ping. Maybe that's ok, for an installer on CD.
However, i think it would be a nice feature to be able, once the network
is established, to load additional packages from the net into RAM
to be able to do any task that comes around. Yes, that would be
_very_ handy.
Greetings,
Micha
( -- Or maybe i just didn't find the feature...?)
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