Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Hello,
I would like to report a successful (well, let's say almost successful)
installation, with a single little issue in the auto-generated /etc/fstab
file.
The issue may be easily fixed by hand, but, still, I think it's caused
by a bug: that's why I am reporting it.
Thanks a lot for the great job in developing debian-installer: it's
getting more and more practical to use. Well done! :-)
See below for the details.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: USB stick
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2013-02-23 10:13
MD5SUM of image: a344ded2e4a1895a28b87acda348098b debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
Machine: Acer TravelMate P253-E-B9602G32Mnks (NX.V7XET.004)
Partitions: some partitions and LVM volumes inside /dev/sda, created through
manual partitioning; I think the details are not especially
relevant
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]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [O]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
The machine is a Acer TravelMate P253-E-B9602G32Mnks (NX.V7XET.004)
laptop. The output of "lspci -n" and of "lspci -vvv" are attached.
Overall, the installation went fine.
I downloaded the above mentioned debian-installer image today and
wrote it to a USB stick with "dd". After configuring the BIOS so that
the laptop can boot from USB HDD or USB CDROM, I started the
installation process.
The Ethernet adapter (Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit
Ethernet PCIe) was correctly detected and used as primary network
interface. It also seems to work fine after booting the installed
system (without any non-free drivers or firmware blobs!).
I still have to test the wireless network adapter (Atheros
Communications Inc. AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter), but it was
correctly detected during the installation and offered as a possible
alternative, when choosing the primary network interface. And the ath9k
kernel module is automatically loaded on the installed system
(the wireless adapter should work without any non-free drivers or
firmware blobs, as far as I know!).
Please note that I worked around the bug in the GRUB installation,
as currently suggested in the errata page:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
In other words, I answered "No" when asked to install GRUB to the MBR,
and then explicitly specified "/dev/sda" as device for boot loader
installation.
I don't know what would have happened, if I had not followed this
strategy.
After booting the installed system, I noticed that the /etc/fstab
needed to be fixed by hand.
The last four lines looked like:
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sr1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
The last three lines should not be present: only the first one (of the
above mentioned lines) is correct, since the laptop has only one
DVD drive and there is no /dev/sdb (after removing the USB stick...).
I manually deleted the last three lines with a text editor.
I also had to remove the extraneous mount points:
# ls -F /media
cdrom@ cdrom0/ cdrom1/ usb@ usb0/ usb1/
# rmdir /media/cdrom1 /media/usb?
# rm /media/usb
# ls -F /media
cdrom@ cdrom0/
I don't know exactly why the fstab file was created that way, but
it really looks wrong (even though easy to fix).
Please investigate and fix this little bug.
Thanks for your time!
00:00.0 0600: 8086:0104 (rev 09) 00:02.0 0300: 8086:0106 (rev 09) 00:16.0 0780: 8086:1e3a (rev 04) 00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:1e2d (rev 04) 00:1b.0 0403: 8086:1e20 (rev 04) 00:1c.0 0604: 8086:1e10 (rev c4) 00:1c.1 0604: 8086:1e12 (rev c4) 00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:1e26 (rev 04) 00:1f.0 0601: 8086:1e5e (rev 04) 00:1f.2 0106: 8086:1e03 (rev 04) 00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:1e22 (rev 04) 02:00.0 0200: 14e4:16b5 (rev 10) 02:00.1 0805: 14e4:16bc (rev 10) 02:00.2 0880: 14e4:16be (rev 10) 02:00.3 0880: 14e4:16bf (rev 10) 03:00.0 0280: 168c:0032 (rev 01)
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