Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Lenny" - Official Snapshot i386 NETINST
Binary-1 20080814-19:49
Date: Friday Aug 15, 2008
Machine: Dell Dimension 4100
Processor: Pentium PIII
Memory: 384 Mb
Partitions:
/dev/hda1 ext3 264445 115543 135249 47% /
tmpfs tmpfs 193096 0 193096 0% /lib/init/rw
udev tmpfs 10240 112 10128 2% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 193096 0 193096 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda9 ext3 9780144 547100 8736236 6% /home
/dev/hda8 ext3 381138 10301 351159 3% /tmp
/dev/hda5 ext3 4806904 2097716 2465004 46% /usr
/dev/hda6 ext3 2885780 1117536 1621656 41% /var
(used guided partitioning)
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [E]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [E]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
* Pick a mirror that is down (or whatever reason), the setup just
hangs. There is NO timeout, and no way to return to re-select another
mirror. FWIW, my first (unsuccessful) attempt was gatech.edu. Only
way to get past was to do a hard-reboot.
* Perhaps because the above step required a hard-reboot (or some other
reason?), the partitions and the file types were correctly identified,
but not their NAMES.
* Three deb packages (one of them being bsdmainutils) were identified
as corrupt in the downloaded ISO image. The second (unsuccessful)
attempt would never get past the bsdmainutils being corrupt. The
three packages were identified as faulty ONLY by the md5sum bundled
within the netinst CD. Running md5sum now (just to be able to give
you the three packages that failed) resulted in all "OK". Am at a
complete loss to explain how the Message Digest 5 algorithm can
indicate the same file as 'OK' or 'FAILED' against the same computed
hash.
* After umpteen "Try Again" (which appeared to do nothing), for
whatever reason, the installation magically proceeded to work. I
accidentally hit Enter against the boot loader option. Hitting "Go
back" had no effect. It went ahead and installed GRUB anyway.
* As such, I didn't have critical data on my Debian Etch, despite all
the misgivings above, I consider the installation to be overall okay.
* Lenny bundles SWF decoder library with GNOME. However, its
performance is quite bad compared to the non-free download from Adobe.
As I figure it, the only way to get rid of the plugin is to uninstall
ALL of Gnome! Surely the dependency tracking between packages could
use some tweaking here.
ALL SAID, I APPRECIATE THE EFFORT TAKEN BY VOLUNTEERS TO COME UP WITH
THE BEST LINUX DISTRO OUT THERE.
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