INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso (12 Aug 2003) uname -a: Linux huan 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown (that's after installing woody and kernel-image-2.4.18-686) Date: 12 Aug 2003 Method: CD/network install (standard mirrors) No proxy Machine: MS6119 motherboard (slot 1), eepro100 nic Processor: Pentium II-MMX 350 Memory: 64M Root Device: IDE primary master Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 487 3911796 83 Linux /dev/hda2 488 525 305235 82 Linux swap Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 01) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] Create file systems: [E] Mount partitions: [E] Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: "Detect a keyboard and select layout" failed immediately: "Segmentation fault kbd-chooser's postinst exited with status 35584" This went away after loading the console-keymaps-at installer module. eepro100 module wasn't on the CD. grr. Swapped out the NIC with another I had lying around, which was detected without trouble (3c59x). DHCP configuration worked fine, but the installer keeps defaulting to the "configure a network via PPP over modem or serial line" option. "Partitioning Error: Failed to partition the disc /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc." Same with the OLD version, but that one then gives me a useful error message: "cfdisk: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" I had to manually symlink /lib/libslang.so.1-UTF8 to /lib/libslang.so.1. Even then it didn't work from the installer and I had to run cfdisk manually on another console. I would have liked to see it create the filesystems. (or at least an indication that it was doing so.) As it was I wondered if it had frozen up. After 'configure and mount partitions' which had created filesystems, it asks me to "Automatically partition hard drives (unsafe)". Yeah, that's a great idea. during install base system after downloading the packages lists the screen was blank (blue bg) and the network inactive. Hitting enter a few times spurred it into action. Perhaps there was a prompt that got messed up by the UI? or perhaps hitting enter was coincidental with it finishing whatever it was doing. The same thing happened during install the kernel, but pushing enter did nothing (although it eventually came to life again). Therefore I assume pressing enter was a coincidence in the first case. Incidentally, I thought installing the base system did install a kernel - are these two steps supposed to both be run? At the end of Install the Kernel debootstrap exited with error code 1, apparently because /target/usr/bin/awk already existed (from /target/var/log/debootstrap.log). It is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/awk I would have liked to install grub instead of lilo, but couldn't see how. Further, when I did try to install lilo it behaved as if installing the base system (yet again) and failed the same as above. In the end I had to install using a woody CD, but it has made considerable progress since my last try. I have a few general suggestions from an experienced Debian user's standpoint. I like the alternative choices but they have a high potential for confusing users. Especially when the next highlighted choice is absurd, as was the case with wanting me to autopartition after having partitioned manually and created the filesystems. The order of operations seems a little skewed; at least in my case I had to do installer modules before I could select a keyboard, and once installer modules has been done there are a lot of choices listed before it which seem to depend on it. That's ok as long as the default selection makes sense and doesn't get stuck on something absurd. (as another example of that, when I tried a second time I didn't want to repartition because I was satisfied with the partitioning I had already done, but after every step it wanted me to partition the hard drive) The slang(?) interface is still a little rough around the edges. (things overflowing off the right of the screen, the apparent inactivity (e.g. broken-looking screen) while it thinks, etc.) Couldn't figure out how to get back to plain text in spite of installing the installer module. -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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