Bug#220014: installation-reports: Installation report (beta-1): DHCP, drives problems
Package: installation-reports
Version: 2003-11-10
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 2003-11-10 (beta-1)
uname -a: "Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-i386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux"
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:10:00 +0100
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Install with the netinst on a i386 with IDE CD Drive. Boot on the CD, local network without DHCP
Machine: i386 (pentium III), IDE drives
hda: FUJITSU MPD3043AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HITACHI CDR-8335, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
Processor: Pentium III (Coppermine), 750Mhz
Memory: 128M
Root Device: /dev/hdc
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/hdc: 30.7 GB, 30738677760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3737 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 637 5116671 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc2 638 1500 6932047+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc3 1501 1657 1261102+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc4 1658 3737 16707600 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 1658 1683 208813+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdc6 1684 3737 16498723+ 83 Linux
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [E]
The install should not look on a DHCP server without asking.
After about 30s for looking on the server, the install draw a config
failure screen. After that no way to automatic continue the install
(need to select categories and after each one the selection drop to the list
beginning .. it's very annoying especially for people who don't know what doing
and whould like to continue to the next step with enter ..)
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
But if you select the swap partition and do no changes, the installer set "/" as
mount point for the swap, and that conflicts with the real swap to continue the
install.
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
The default was set to /dev/host0/..... (I don't remember this looong devfs
path for /dev/hdc), so after rebooting no lilo. How a standard can know that
this "/dev/host...drive...part" stuff is not the booting drive ?
Reboot: [E]
See the previous explain.
And :
At the end of base config apt is looking for the sarge again and again in /cdrom
and it doesn't work! The CD was fine during the first part of the installer,
but after rebooting the ide-scsi module is used (the cd drive is not even a cd
writter) ... the base config doesn't succes to find /cdrom and ask again, again
and again for the CD which is in the drive ...
fstab describe the CD as /dev/hdb, the ide-scsi module changed it to /dev/sr0 ...
so user is a loop that only a massive Ctrl+C can abord ...
Comments/Problems:
I think that a standard user/beginning could not install a sarge on my box:
* DHCP missing just break the installer progression :
-> there should really have a question: do you want automatically/manually
configure the network, or not break the progression if dhcp fail by jumping to
manual network config and continue with the right steps.
* displaying the devfs path for a drive ... how an user can handle that ? You should
have "MBR on boot disk" and "Others disk" choices ...
* the ide-scsi/fstab bug create a sort of loop ... no way to quit in a correct way
(just hit ctrl+C several times ...), no way to continue for a standard user
Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher
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