boot-floppies 2.2.0 report
CONFIGURATION:
motherboard: Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 4.1 Award BIOS rev 1.5
cpu: AMD K6-2/333
memory: 128MB PC100 sdram 95MHZ / 128MB Swap partition
disks: 1.44 Teac floppy
hda Quantum 6149MB udma
sda Seagate 1010MB SCSI-2
sdb IBM 4134MB Ultra-SCSI
partition: hda1 msdos 509MB (DR-DOS 7.03)
hda2 extended 3618MB
hda3 ufs 1026MB (Solaris 7)
hda4 ffs 797MB (FreeBSD 3.2)
hda5 linux swap 125MB (linux+hurd swap)
hda6 ntfs 804MB (WinNT 4.0)
hda7 ext2 804MB (production slink system)
hda8 ext2 804MB (unused)
hda9 ext2 1277MB (unused)
sda1 ext2 210MB (production data backup)
sda2 ext2 800MB (production backup system)
sdb1 extended 1725MB
sdb2 ffs 807MB (FreeBSD 3.2)
sdb3 ext2 800MB (unused)
sdb4 ext2 800MB (HURD testing)
sdb5 linux swap 125MB (linux+hurd swap)
sdb6 ext2 800MB (production backup system)
sdb7 ext2 800MB (potato test system)
scsi: Buslogic BT-946C SCSI-2
sound card: Creative SB 16 PNP
video card: Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM (4MB vram)
cd-rom: Sony CDU-76S SCSI-2
modem: Zoom 56K v.90 Internal
mouse: PS/2 Logitech Mouseman+
keyboard: Keytronic KB101+ PC-AT
net card: Linksys LNE100TX ver 2.0
TESTING TARGET:
task: Base system installation
source: boot-floppies 2.2.0 from Incoming
PREPARATION:
Downloaded base2_2.tgz, basecont.txt, drv14-1.bin, drv14-2.bin,
drv14-3.bin, install.en.txt, md5sum.txt, resc1440.bin, root.bin,
root1440.bin.txt to /dev/hda7:/home/jeff/debian/potato/base
directory. Verified md5 checksums. Formatted two error free
floppies, then used dd to make resc1440.bin and root1440.bin disks.
PROCESS:
Booted with resc1440 disk, used root1440 as ramdisk.
PROBLEMS:
1. The SPI message splash screen has line wrap problems
and needs to be properly formatted.
2. The blinking cursor appears on every screen, I find it
to be obnoxious.
3. "Installing Operating System Kernel and Modules". The
sentence "Please select the medium you will use to
install the system from", I found to be confusing.
What "system" are we installing here? I selected the
archive path "list" option, and I was told that it
"couldn't find any directory containing a file
resc1440.bin", note that the indicated file does exist
at the path I specified. Then I tried the "choose
manually" option, this time it responded with
"/instmnt/home/jeff/debian/potato/base does not contain
the file drivers.tgz that is needed to install the
kernel and the modules", which is accurate, because
there was no such file to download, only
drv14-[123].bin were available.
4. I opened a VT shell to look around. I invoked "vi",
which responded with "ae: problem with configuration
file, line 0.", from then on that VT session was
unusable untill I kill -9 it. Next I tried "ae", which
worked ``OK'' as far as "ae" is concerned; I soon found
out that there is no search command in "ae", and grep
returned an error that the real grep was not yet
available. I am an Emacs devotee, but here I would
prefer elvis_tiny, even ed over ae.
5. I was ready to give up at this point so I tried making
a boot floppy, which failed, and rightly so at this
point it seems to me.
6. I next tried the partition listing, worked great, well
done, thanks.
7. I then selected "Reboot" - this worked as expected.
COMMENTS:
A great beginning. It went much smoother than I expected
for 2.2.0, keep up the good work!
HTH,
--
Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>
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