Bug#907511: installation-reports: debian buster rc3 fails network, modules, partitioning
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: USB
Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_alpha3/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-alpha3-amd64-i386-netinst.iso 2018-06-12
Date: August 2018
Machine: Supermicro R331.v5
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [E]
Configure network: [E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [E]
Clock/timezone setup: [E]
User/password setup: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Install base system: [E]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
Installer with 4.16.x kernel failed with network device detection, despite
4.9.0-n kernels of stretch having proper module, and in fact also the 4.17 kernel in buster.
Installer reported that lvm was not available.
Installer found disk, but after defining a partition size, would not allow any options
beyond FAT16, FAT32, swap, or "do not use" ... even when the disk was pre-partitioned.
No option to define a root partition, no option for ext3/4 xfs, btrfs, etc.
Was not able to proceed with installation.
Ended up skipping Buster, rolled back to:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/48 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/48 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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