Re: Install report: Woody on a SGI Indy R5000
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> I installed testing/woody as of 2002-02-21 on a SGI Indy, hinv output below.
>
> General:
> - Installer uses only 80x25 characters (the text messages later
> are wider than 80 characters). It would be nice to have a way
> to adapt it.
> - Console drops some characters when scrolling fast. This is
> AFAIK a kernel issue and should at least mentioned in the
> install manual (more to this point below).
> - There seems to be no redraw via ^L.
>
> Partition mounting:
> - Size of partitions (fdisk -l) is only available via shell escape.
> It would be more convenient to have it displayed in the overview.
> - Manual mentions /tmp as a recommended mount point but not /boot,
> Installer mentions /boot but not /tmp. Both the Manual and the
> installer should be expanded WRT.
>
> Select Installation Server:
> - Installer complains about missing Ext3 journal on loop(7,0)
> when downloading.
>
> Configuring device driver modules:
> - For every module a message: "Architecture specific modutils
> configuration not found, using defaults."
Should be fixed by the patch attached to Bug #135169.
[..snip..]
> Installing base system:
> - The Installer does not re-use the input from "Select Installation
> Server" as default. Doing so would be more convenient.
>
> [reboot for next stage setup]
>
> Password setup:
> - The installer regards e.g. "ica2_ts" as invalid user name, but
> only when the password is already typed twice. It should IMHO
> allow --force-badname with a warning or at least it should
> complain earlier.
>
> Apt configuration:
> - The apt configuration allows to include debian security updates
> but tries to use stable mips, which is still not existing.
All of the above looks like arch independent issues. Could you please
open appropriate bugs against the boot-floppies package?
-- Guido
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