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Bug#728322: marked as done (installer problems)

Your message dated Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:08:17 +0100
with message-id <20140304150817.GD9940@mraw.org>
and subject line Re: Bug#728322: installer problems
has caused the Debian Bug report #728322,
regarding installer problems
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: live usb
Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
Date: 29th October 2013

Machine: Dell Inspirion N5110
Processor:
Memory:
Partitions: left to the installer to do

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

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:  [E]
Install base system:    [E]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems: I encountered several problems that I managed to overcome, and I'm writting just one ticket. Firstly, during the expert install I selected Serbia and opted for Serbian mirrors. Trying to install Jessie resulted in an error message to the effect that the package signatures are not in order. Switching to Wheezy reported an error saying that it was unable to install the kernel, but that I can choose to proceed without one if I know what I'm doing. I have abandoned the expert install at this point. After that I went with the quick and dirty route, which resulted in the Grub bootloader being installed onto the USB stick (mounted as sda) instead of the hdd (sdb). Having booted from the usb I manged to install Grub onto the hdd (which was now mounted as sda for some reason). I marked down the partitioning scheme because the automated paritioning of a 320GiB HDD (with the /usr, /home, /tmp and /var dirs having their own sepperate partitions) resulted in a 300MB temp and 300MB rootfs paritition which proved inadequate the 1st or 2nd time I tried to install a custom package using dpkg -i (since skype and the like prefer /opt for some reason). 

Like I said - I managed to overcome all of this and get a working OS, but not without a lot of needless hassle. I have a little earlier linux experience which helped me figure out just what exactly went wrong. I can't imagine someone new to Linux as an OS or to the Debian distro would put up with all this. Seriously, at the very least the installer should be able to figure out where to install the bootloader and be able to come up with a practical partitioning scheme.



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Hi,

and thanks for your report.

Nemanja . <nemanja.m.ciric@gmail.com> (2013-10-30):
> Comments/Problems: I encountered several problems that I managed to
> overcome, and I'm writting just one ticket. Firstly, during the expert
> install I selected Serbia and opted for Serbian mirrors. Trying to
> install Jessie resulted in an error message to the effect that the
> package signatures are not in order. Switching to Wheezy reported an
> error saying that it was unable to install the kernel, but that I can
> choose to proceed without one if I know what I'm doing.

(Hard to say what went wrong without seeing the logs.)

> I have abandoned the expert install at this point. After that I went
> with the quick and dirty route, which resulted in the Grub bootloader
> being installed onto the USB stick (mounted as sda) instead of the hdd
> (sdb).  Having booted from the usb I manged to install Grub onto the hdd
> (which was now mounted as sda for some reason). I marked down the
> partitioning scheme because the automated paritioning of a 320GiB HDD
> (with the /usr, /home, /tmp and /var dirs having their own sepperate
> partitions) resulted in a 300MB temp and 300MB rootfs paritition which
> proved inadequate the 1st or 2nd time I tried to install a custom
> package using dpkg -i (since skype and the like prefer /opt for some
> reason).
> 
> Like I said - I managed to overcome all of this and get a working OS,
> but not without a lot of needless hassle. I have a little earlier
> linux experience which helped me figure out just what exactly went
> wrong. I can't imagine someone new to Linux as an OS or to the Debian
> distro would put up with all this. Seriously, at the very least the
> installer should be able to figure out where to install the bootloader
> and be able to come up with a practical partitioning scheme.

The former is a known (and documented in errata) grub-installer bug; the
latter shouldn't have been an issue if you had picked a single partition
on the whole disk, which is the default AFAICT.

Since those were you major grudges against the installer, I'm closing this
bug report. There are other auto-partitioning related bug reports open
already to track the needed improvements.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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