Bug#684954: installation-reports: fine apart from timezone & apt translations
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/i386/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Aug 11 13:37 PDT 2012
Machine: VIA CN400-8237/EPIA-SP
Processor: VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah)
Memory: 1G
Partitions: manual crypto layout, but irrelevant as everything worked fine
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
lspci -knn: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN333/CN400/PM880 Host Bridge [1106:0259]
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: agpgart-via
lspci -knn: 00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN333/CN400/PM880 Host Bridge [1106:1259]
lspci -knn: 00:00.2 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN333/CN400/PM880 CPU Host Bridge [1106:2259]
lspci -knn: 00:00.3 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN333/CN400/PM880 Host Bridge [1106:3259]
lspci -knn: 00:00.4 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN333/CN400/PM880 Host Bridge [1106:4259]
lspci -knn: 00:00.7 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN333/CN400/PM880 Host Bridge [1106:7259]
lspci -knn: 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge [1106:b198]
lspci -knn: 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [1106:3044]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
lspci -knn: 00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: sata_via
lspci -knn: 00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:0571] (rev 06)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: pata_via
lspci -knn: 00:10.0 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: 00:10.1 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: 00:10.2 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: 00:10.3 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller [1106:3038] (rev 81)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
lspci -knn: 00:10.4 USB controller [0c03]: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104] (rev 86)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 [1106:3104]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
lspci -knn: 00:11.0 ISA bridge [0601]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] [1106:3227]
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller [1106:3059] (rev 60)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:aa01]
lspci -knn: 00:12.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] [1106:3065] (rev 78)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device [1106:0102]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: via-rhine
lspci -knn: 00:14.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:100e] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:002e]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: e1000
lspci -knn: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM800/PM880/PN800/PN880 [S3 UniChrome Pro] [1106:3118] (rev 02)
lspci -knn: Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN400/PM800/PM880/PN800/PN880 [S3 UniChrome Pro] [1106:3118]
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: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [E]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
The only serious problem I faced with the wheezy beta installer was
the inability to set my timezone correctly on install. I gather the
timezone choices are dictated by the "location" choice early on in the
install process, but even while I think its a big mistake to limit the
available timezone choices based on the physical location of a system,
more egregious, was the total inability to choose UTC. It really
makes me wonder what worthwhile utility the first location question
has at all; I strongly suspect there is none. It isn't used to
determine an appropriate package mirror, and rightly so, becuase
network latency and physical proximity are all too often at odds
anyhow. It isn't used to impose strict language choices because that
would be myopic. It shouldn't be used to restrict timezones, because
there are plenty of situations where you want to set a system's
localtime to something that doesn't actually match is physical
location---servers always kept in UTC regardless of location probably
being the most common example.
The other issue I ran into has already been reported in bugs
#641967 and #678227, wherein apt wastes time and bandwidth downloading
translation files I have no use for by default.
--
Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/
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