Re: Debian installer test report
> > * Partition hard drives: Automatic partitioning didn't work as expected.
> > It didn't ask which hard disk to use (or both), also, it didn't ask
> > for confirmation to write the partition table or start making the
> > file-systems. For me this is more than unsafe, it is destructive. So,
> > I think that at least you need to put a really _big_ warning.
> > I didn't continue the installation because I was doing it in my every
> > day use computer, so, as soon as I realice what was happening I press
> > the reset button in order to minimice the damage.
>
> You mean the debconf template autopartkit/confirm that says
> """
> Are you sure you want to automatically partition the disk ?
> This will destroy the partition table on all disks in the machine.
> REPEAT: THIS WILL WIPE CLEAN ALL HARD DISKS IN THE MACHINE!
> If you have important data that are not backed up, you may want to
> stop now in order to do a backup. In that case, you'll have to
> restart the installation later.
> """
Yes, thats fine.
> and is asked with priority "high" when autopartkit is started? I don't
> know what version of autopartkit you got, but if the image is recent,
> this really should have been shown. What debconf priority did you
> select?
I might selected "critical" in a mistake (I knew what this priorities
mean). However, I think this should be displayed whichever the selection
was, if this is not critical, what is critical?
> If you selected "critical", I'm in awe of your confidence in us
> to produce an alpha version installer that doesn't break your every day
> computer!
>
Yes, I'm confident enough in Debian developers, and I know I can recover
the system in case things go wrong (I never thought it can go so wrong),
I'm lucky and the system is healthy again :).
I've done a second installation disconnecting the first HD, I Think it's
more interesting that the first one:
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: [O]
Mount partitions: [E]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
* pump fails:
pump: error while loading shared libraries:
libopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory.
* Network HW: I have to load 8139too by hand
* Partition HD:
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 3228 MB, 3228696576 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 782 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 406 1636960+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 407 782 1516032 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 407 782 1516000+ 82 Linux swap
This is what autopartkit have done, for me is suboptimal, ¿why a 1.4GiB
in an HD of 3GiB and 512MiB of RAM? Apart from that partitioning is
correct.
* Mount partitions:
Can't activate swap space. Error:
Partconf: Activating swap on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target/lun0/part5
swapon: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target/lun0/part5: Device or resource busy
swap works well after reboot.
* Install base system:
Error:
P: 0 100 Downloading Release file
I: Retrieving http:///debian/dist/sarge/Release
E: Failed getting file http:///debian/dist/sarge/Release
Install the base system into /target/ failed
Check /target/var/log/debootstrap.log and
/target/var/log/debootstrap.err.log
But they are empty.
I've changed the mirror to ftp://ftp.rediris.es and I get
P: xx xx Downloading foo
I: Retrieving ftp://....foo....
W: Retrieving failed download of ftp://....foo....
W: Retrieving failed download of ftp://....foo....
I: Validating /target/var/cache/apt/archives/.....foo....
for every downloaded file, but at the end the file is downloaded.
The rest of the installation was smooth.
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