installation notes
Hello, i'm a new Debian convert. I have been using the ftp method
of dselect to install and update Debian 1.1b on a few machines. I
have a few questions and comments on the installation/maintenance
procedure.
In all i am very happy with the quality of the Debian distribution.
The installation went very smoothly, and most of the few bugs/hickups
i found have since been fixed.
The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect
tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the
ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This
causes dselect to try to retrieve a non-existing file, and it fails.
This in turn causes some dependencies to fail.
For example, the Packages file in unstable/ currently thinks that
the available version of xforms is 0.80j-2, but the file present in
the unstable/binary/x11 directory is identified as version 0.80j-3.
A couple of packages are missing some of the install scripts. For
example sudo. Here is the installation error. I guess this should
be directed to the maintainer of the sudo package?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Setting up sudo ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing sudo (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The default system init scripts have two shortcomings in my mind.
kerneld should be started before ANYTHING else happens, with the
possible exception of a root filesystem check. The reason for this
is that it may be needed to load binary-format modules, or
md-personalities, etc. I had my system lock up during boot because
i have swap on a raid0 md device, and i compiled raid0 as a module.
Also, "mdadd -ar" doesnt work. The mdtools man pages are wrong.
The workaround is to mdadd and mdrun each md-device individually.
All in all i am very happy to have discovered the Debian
distribution.
Sebastian Kuzminsky
kuzminsk@cs.colorado.edu
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