Report of slink installation with 2.1.3 disks
Got everything installed, but had problems with PCMCIA.
CONFIGURATION:
machine: IBM ThinkPad 560e
memory: 32MB
disk: 2016MB IBM-DTNA-22110
partitions: hda1 660MB fat32
hda2 96MB Linux swap
hda3 1.3GB Linux root
scsi: PCMCIA Adaptec AHA152x for Sony CD-diskman, not used
sound: internal, not tried
video card: 2MB VRAM, Trident Cyber 9382
cd-rom: Sony SCSI CD-diskman, not used this time
net card: PCMCIA 3Com 589 (3c562)
TESTING TARGET:
task: Base system installation (slink)
source: boot-floppies 2.1.3 from upload@erlangen
PREPARATION:
Used dd to create rescue and drivers floppies. Prepared NFS server on
another machine to export directory containing base2_1.tgz and other
boot related files (rescue, drivers, etc.). The machine running NFS
server has also complete mirror of slink and hamm and was later used
to install the rest of the packages with dselect/apt over HTTP.
PROCESS:
Booted with tecra rescue disk since the normal rescue caused reboot
after "Loading linux..." message even with kernel option
"floppy=thinkpad".
When it was time to configure PCMCIA, I had same problems as reported
by Ian Redfern on debian-boot. When PCMCIA scripts were run, at least
fuser, sed and expr were not found, causing error messages and
segmentation faults. However, eth0 was available but disappeared when
the network configuration was done.
I was able to recover from missing eth0 by killing cardmgr, removing
all the PCMCIA related modules and then manually using the running
cardmgr from the other virtual console.
When I proceeded installing the base system via NFS, I had to first
move /target/sbin/cardmgr to /target/sbin/cardmgr.something so that
base2_1.tgz could be untarred without errors.
After that everything went well and I proceeded to install lilo and
do the first reboot.
After reboot I decided not to try "choose from several selections",
but went straight to dselect. I configured apt to use HTTP and
accepted the default selections which were installed with no
problems. There was no need to run [I]nstall many times and the
installation process was very smooth. Good job guys :)
After quitting dselect, I logged in and noticed that my fi-latin1
keymap was not loaded. There seems to be a bug somewhere still.
COMMENTS:
As someone else already noted, why not have
o "Another system will be the DNS server." as default when
configuring DNS server? Currently it defaults to
o "The system will be its own DNS server."
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Heikki Vatiainen * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
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