Re: report about installations with the powerpc-cd from the 22nd of April

[Ronny Aasen <ronny@skolelinux.no>]

Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did some test installs with the CD for powerpc yesterday on a 250 Mhz iMac 
> with 192mb RAM (and with the CD built on the 22nd of april.)
>
> Summary: it looks much better than before but still has some itchy bits.
>
> I did three installations, always selecting the workstation and standalone 
> profiles together.
>
> The difference was the type of partitioning setup I choose. If I choose "all 
> files in one partition", the installed system booted after the installation. 
> If I choose a LVM setup, either the workstation profile or the "all files in 
> one partition", the bootloader couldnt boot the kernel. Strangely in all 
> three cases d-i claims at the end of the installation, that it couldnt 
> install the bootloader. (But it was always there, it just didnt work in two 
> cases :/
>
>   
the "all files in one partition", is debian's recipe so not one of ours. 
And it contains /boot on a separate etx3 partition so the bootloader 
should find it lvm or not. was the error that bootloader failed to load 
the kernel/initrd. or that the kernel/initrd loaded, but failed to boot ?

perhaps we have a missing module in the initrd ? also are there logs 
from when the bootloader claims to fail to install ?

it would also be interesting to know if our profile recipes work at at all.

> LVM works in Debian etch. (I havent confirmed etch final yet, but rc1 worked 
> for sure.) So this is an debian-edu issue.
>
> Select mirror always failed, but AIUI Pere already fixed this in r32740. I'm 
> not sure if this is the reason for the somewhat strange /e/a/sources.list I 
> had on the installed system, I'll take another look once the fixed package is 
> available.
>
> The installed kdm looks nice and sounds works too. The X resolution is too 
> small, but this is also the case for a Debian etch install.
>
> After login a debconf note is shown, informing me about some debconf failures 
> from debian-edu-config (due to not being able to find an ldap-server tjener, 
> etc.). This looks bad on standalone install.
>
> Besides these minor issues I now have a debian-edu powerpc workstation.
>
>
>   
\ô/

> regards
> 	Holger
>   

Ronny