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Bug#685308: marked as done (Installation report Wheezy Beta 1)



Your message dated Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:42:38 +0200
with message-id <201308251243.25305.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line dealing with old installation-reports
has caused the Debian Bug report #685308,
regarding Installation report Wheezy Beta 1
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>
CD

Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>
Wheezy release Beta 1 AMD64 Netinst
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-netinst.iso

Date: <Date and time of the install>
August 18 and August 19, several attempts

Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
Lenovo IdeaCentre K210

Processor: Intel Dual Core Pentium E5200
Memory: 4G
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Partition 1: Windows Vista (620 GB)
Partition 2: free space (19 GB)

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): not available

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:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Overall install:        [ ]

Comments/Problems:

I tried several attempts, with different partitioning.

In each case, I preserved partition 1, which held a Windows Vista partition.
The free space was either partitioned into a swap and a root partition, or
was used as an encrypted partition with LVM holding a swap and root logical
volume.  I also tried several choices about what partitions were bootable.
I didn't really know what this should have been, which may well have been
part of the problem.  One of the choices I tried was to let the installer
automatically partition the free space.

For all of these choices, when I got to the Grub screen, the installer
did not recognize the Vista installation.  Eventually, I went ahead anyway
and let grub install.  But the installation to the MBR got a fatal error,
and trying to let grub install elsewhere eventually got my system pretty
messed up.  Telling grub to install at /dev/sda2 finally did it in and its
not bootable now.  Next step will be to try a clean install to the entire
drive, overwriting the Vista.


As a second oddity, once when I was at the Popularity Contest screen,
I hit the Go Back button.  This was a mistake, as it locked up the installation
and I eventually had to restart the machine and installation to unfreeze it.


Thanks for all the great work you people do.  I hope this report helps make
Debian a bit better.
 		 	   		  

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reassign 701201 src:linux
retitle 701201 libata.atapi_passthru16=0 is needed by some hardware
forcemerge 690985 686954
thanks

Hi,

thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated.

I read through all the bugs mentioned here (and I'm sure they were read by 
several people at the time they were submitted) and am closing them now as/if
- they (finally) indicated success and/or
- I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in 
Wheezy and/or
- they only contained very little information and/or
- they contained user errors and/or
- they were caused by broken hardware and/or
- they have been from a development phase where things were not stable and/or
- they are quite old (and thus likely fixed today) and/or
- moreinfo was asked and not given.

If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply (it's easy to reopen and I'll 
do if requested) or just file a new one - thats often better, as the bug log 
will be clearer and shorter and not contain cruft.


cheers,
        Holger

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