Bug#650239: Installation Failure
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy?
network?>"DVD" from On-Disk ("GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" - 32 bit")
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>ditto
Date: <Date and time of the install>27 Nov, afternoon
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>Toshiba laptop
2415-5205 (very reliable)
Processor:Pent4-M
Memory:1GB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>one
only -- no other systems present. replaced Ubuntu, which previously
replaced Win XP
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):huh?
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [o ]
Detect network card: [o ]
Configure network: [ o]
Detect CD: [o ]
Load installer modules: [o ]
Detect hard drives: [o ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [o ]
Clock/timezone setup: [o ]
User/password setup: [o ]
Install tasks: [o ]
Install boot loader: [o ]
Overall install: [o ]
(The "configure the package manager" was suspiciously instantanious
and didn't clearly indicate being finished.)
Comments/Problems:Everything seemed great, and I had set some
preferences and settings. As a last step I went for updates and
downloaded a LARGE quantity. Upon completion I was told to restart
and did so, but the sign-in box contents were incomplete. I got past
that with keyboard and enter's, but the desktop was unusable. It
responded promptly to clicks with the white boxes for programs but
their contents were fragmented, very incomplete, and very slow to show
up. Extensive hovering with the trackball encouraged some fragments
to appear, but never enough to be useful. Ctrl+F4 worked properly.
Rebooted several times with identical results. Shut-downs required
Ctrl+Alt+Del's.
I've done a complete re-installation in order to get online and it
again came up fast and crisp, but I prevented any updates from being
downloaded and got online with Iceweasel to send this report. I'm
going to try to download Chrome, but no further "installation work"
until I hear from you (please!)
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>One or more of the
numerous updates screwed things up!
--Pete Betz, Vista, CA
(Ignore vacation response you'll get from Gmail when you email me.)
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