Bug#211067: Installation report on ThinkPad 600E
Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 14-Sep-2003 16:15 116M
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.21-5-386 #1 Sun Aug 24 13:14:58 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 2003-09-15
Method:
I've booted from an CDRW containing the above netinst.iso, no network because
of missing PCMCIA-Packages and therefore no proxy.
Machine: IBM ThinkPad 600E
Processor: Mobile Pentium II, 366 Mhz
Memory: 128M
Root Device: IDE /dev/hda1
Root Size/partition table: see below
Output of lspci: Sorry, no network, no floppy and far too long to cutnpaste by hand :)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [o]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Okay, here we go - step by step:
- booted with 'linux vga=791'
- Choose Language: Deutsch/Deutschland
(many menupoints are still english. I guess this is known and more or less on
whishlist :)
- Detect a keyboard and select layout: [de-latin1-nodeadkeys]
- Detect CDROM devices
- Load installer modules: cdrom-retriever, none chosen
This list is fairly long and complicated for a newbie
(but let's imagine I know what I am doing here... ;)
- Detect hardware and load kernel drivers for it (full version)
loaded ide-scsi and scsi_mod additionally (checked using lsmod)
- switching to console 2 and running cfdisk returns "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive"?!?
So I tried "automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) which created 3 partitions:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 3810208+ Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 2487240 extended
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 2487208+ Linux swap
Since the / partition was created as ext2 and I want ext3 I rebooted and went
through everything again - leaving out partitioning
...
- Configure and Mount Partitions
- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 3.6 GiB ext3
- Create ext3 file system
- mount at /
- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 2.4 GiB swap
- Create swap space
- Finish...
- Install the base system
- Install the kernel
It's kinda irritating to see the "Automatically Partition Hard Drives
(unsafe) here, but I guess, it's because I missed that point during the
second installation.
But it shouldn't be there if I mounted partitions already?
- debian-installer utility for creating fstab file
- kernel-image-2.4.21-5-386
- Install GRUB on a hard disk
(hd0)
... 40%, ... ... ...
(translated back from german:) Unable to install GRUB into (hd0)
grub-installer's postinst exited with status 256
Okay, this didn't work, so let's try
- Install LILO on a hard disk
(the grub-installer-screen flashed to the foreground for a second?)
LILO is going to install a "Totoblock" (At least it's called Totoblock in the
german translation?)
- /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
(the grub-installer-screen flashed once more to the foreground - still at 40%)
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
Added Linux *
- Finish the installation and reboot
(once again the grub-installer-screen)
Disc gets ejected and I continue
- LILO boots
- I can shortly see a problem with missing PCMCIA-modules (which sucks on a
notebook) before base-config starts
- base-config runs - but since it's not the installer I stop describing here
- switching to console2 shows that I still have an english keyboard-layout?
BTW - I've just noticed that you can login as root/<no pword> before
base-config did it's work :-(
- /root/dbootstrap_settings shows that languagechooser inserted LANG_INST,
LANGUAGE_INST, kbd-chooser KEYBD and prebaseconfig SUITE variables. Those
include the german keyboard-layout and language settings I've chosen, but
it's not being used?
Okay, so far for my report - waiting for the next netinst-image with PCMCIA
before testing again :-)
Balu
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