Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Boot method: card reader Image version: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/s390/images/daily/generic/ dd1843ff2ea2732c1c148827dc004827 initrd.debian cb4f3536b61cc24f447c4df6f83612c6 kernel.debian ca2e8b612360637f881547617ee76b43 parmfile.debian downloaded 2010-03-25
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:11:54 -0500 Machine: Fake z/Arch, emulated using hercules 3.07-1 setup described at http://www.josefsipek.net/docs/s390-linux/hercules-s390.html Actual machine: Dell Inspiron 4000 (a laptop with a Pentium III in it) Partitions: $ df -Tl | grep '/dev' /dev/dasda1 ext4 2366164 621636 1624332 28% / /dev/dasdb1 ext4 2366164 69088 2176880 4% /home Using whole disks. For example: Disk /dev/dasda doesn't contain a valid partition table Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512) Disk /dev/dasda: 2461 MB, 2461777920 bytes 15 heads, 12 sectors/track, 3339 cylinders Units = cylinders of 180 * 4096 = 737280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xe5e5e5e5 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: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Overall install: [O] Comments: 1. This is my first successful direct squeeze install on s390. I tried a daily build in February (the daily builds weren't being updated at the time, so I assume this was actually a January, 2010 daily build) and that produced HHCCP007I CPU0000 architecture mode set to ESA/390 HHCCP011I CPU0000: Disabled wait state PSW=000A0000 00000000 Command ==> and did nothing more. So I was excited to see that this time I received HHCCP007I CPU0000 architecture mode set to z/Arch which seems to mean the SIGP worked. The rest of this installation report will be boring: because I have my notes, I am pointing out the steps that were noticeably slow without a progress display. Everything worked great. :) 2. Generating an SSH host key takes a long time. I wish there was a way to bypass this step and use telnet instead. I ssh'd in with ssh -c blowfish and chose "Start installer" for a simple install. The location questions were as I'd expect. 3. Somewhat slow to show the "Choose mirror" list. 4. Somewhat slow after downloading release. 5. As Josef Sipek notes, the installer calls DASDs "Disk access storage devices". That should be "Direct access". 6. "Disks need to be formatted before you can create partitions": it isn't clear to me what this means --- partman coped fine without this step. Maybe it would be clearer to be more explicit: "Reinitialize partition table?" or something similar would have been much clearer (if that is what was meant), though perhaps too jargon heavy. 7. Blue screen for a while after "Starting up the partitioner" finishes and before I can interact with the partition manager. 8. The partitioner is even nicer than I remember it. I went with ext4 for both partitions (might have used btrfs if that was available). 9. It asks if I want to go back and use swap. IIRC to avoid fragmentation over time it is really necessary to have swap. Is there a suggested way to deal with this in emulated environments like this one, where swapping to memory would be by far preferrable over doing disk I/O? Anyway, I said "no swap" in keeping with Josef's instructions. 10. Installing the base system takes a while. I hope there is just a final interview after that before I can walk away and let the installer do its thing, but that is not to be. man-db triggers take a lot of time. Maybe they could be saved up for the end of the install? The progress messages often have the form "Retrieving 1 file of 2". This is not very useful, since it doesn't say 1 file of 2 in what entity. Incidentally, an installer timechart would be kind of neat to play with. 11. Now comes an interview to set up root and the first user. There was no option to set up sudo here. (I like to use a dedicated "sudoer" user to take advantage of sudo caching credentials but timing out appropriately without making my main account so easily root-equivalent while I am carrying out administrative tasks.) 12. Configuring APT takes a while. 13. Then "Select and install software" --- this is the bulk of the task. I think man-db triggers make this slower than it needs to be. 14. At progress=13%, the popcon dialog comes up. Couldn't it have asked sooner? 15. Eventually it starts up tasksel. Not much to say about that --- it works pretty well. I chose to install the standard system utilities. 16. For the initial boot: - starting up the login shell takes a _long_ time (completion script cruft)? - -bash: no job control in this shell - C locale (no non-ASCII characters). Not sure why. 17. Something strange happened when I suspended reportbug: it seems to have accepted a ^C that was meant to be directed at bash. Please select a severity level: [normal] [1]+ Stopped reportbug installation-reports j...@s390:~$ ls /usr/share/doc/insta^C j...@s390:~$ ls /usr/share/bug/installation-reportat^C [1]+ Terminated reportbug installation-reports j...@s390:~$ ls /usr/share/bug/installation-reports script j...@s390:~$ ls /usr/share/bug/installation-reports/script /usr/share/bug/installation-reports/script ^[[a...@s390:~$ less /usr/share/bug/installation-reports/script j...@s390:~$ less /usr/share/bug/installation-report/script j...@s390:~$ fg -bash: fg: current: no such job 18. Next step is to install telnet as an inetd service to get rid of some overhead. So, very smooth. I’m impressed. Thanks, Jonathan i5. -- ============================================== Installer lsb-release: ============================================== DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux installer" DISTRIB_RELEASE="6.0 (squeeze) - installer build 20100325-05:20" X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=generic ============================================== Installer hardware-summary: ============================================== uname -a: Linux s390 2.6.32-3-s390x #1 SMP Thu Feb 25 15:07:55 UTC 2010 s390x GNU/Linux lspci -knn: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci lspci -knn: lspci: Cannot find any working access method. lsmod: Module Size Used by lsmod: dm_mod 82061 0 lsmod: md_mod 100992 0 lsmod: xfs 615180 0 lsmod: exportfs 4658 1 xfs lsmod: ext4 420316 2 lsmod: jbd2 108020 1 ext4 lsmod: crc16 1471 1 ext4 lsmod: ext3 154425 0 lsmod: jbd 70570 1 ext3 lsmod: vfat 11890 0 lsmod: fat 61179 1 vfat lsmod: nls_base 8049 2 vfat,fat lsmod: ext2 80475 0 lsmod: mbcache 8226 3 ext4,ext3,ext2 lsmod: ctcm 79453 0 lsmod: fsm 3674 1 ctcm lsmod: cu3088 2368 1 ctcm lsmod: dasd_eckd_mod 69042 8 lsmod: ccwgroup 7786 1 cu3088 lsmod: dasd_mod 63773 5 dasd_eckd_mod df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on df: tmpfs 124944 20 124924 0% /dev df: /dev/dasda1 2366164 621224 1624744 28% /target df: /dev/dasdb1 2366164 69080 2176888 3% /target/home df: /dev/dasda1 2366164 621224 1624744 28% /dev/.static/dev df: tmpfs 124944 20 124924 0% /target/dev free: total used free shared buffers free: Mem: 249888 222908 26980 0 24420 free: Swap: 0 0 0 free: Total: 249888 222908 26980 /proc/cmdline: ro locale=C /proc/cmdline: /proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id : IBM/S390 /proc/cpuinfo: # processors : 1 /proc/cpuinfo: bogomips per cpu: 171.00 /proc/cpuinfo: features : esan3 zarch stfle msa ldisp eimm etf3eh highgprs /proc/cpuinfo: processor 0: version = 00, identification = 000069, machine = 9672 /proc/iomem: 00000000-0fffffff : System RAM /proc/iomem: 00000000-0035ba37 : Kernel code /proc/iomem: 0035ba38-0052365f : Kernel data /proc/interrupts: CPU0 /proc/interrupts: EXT: 955097 /proc/interrupts: I/O: 168569 /proc/meminfo: MemTotal: 249888 kB /proc/meminfo: MemFree: 26980 kB /proc/meminfo: Buffers: 24428 kB /proc/meminfo: Cached: 167084 kB /proc/meminfo: SwapCached: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: Active: 69028 kB /proc/meminfo: Inactive: 107024 kB /proc/meminfo: Active(anon): 2016 kB /proc/meminfo: Inactive(anon): 3920 kB /proc/meminfo: Active(file): 67012 kB /proc/meminfo: Inactive(file): 103104 kB /proc/meminfo: Unevictable: 21376 kB /proc/meminfo: Mlocked: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: SwapTotal: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: SwapFree: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: Dirty: 368 kB /proc/meminfo: Writeback: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: AnonPages: 5952 kB /proc/meminfo: Mapped: 3184 kB /proc/meminfo: Shmem: 20 kB /proc/meminfo: Slab: 19064 kB /proc/meminfo: SReclaimable: 15800 kB /proc/meminfo: SUnreclaim: 3264 kB /proc/meminfo: KernelStack: 1424 kB /proc/meminfo: PageTables: 256 kB /proc/meminfo: NFS_Unstable: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: Bounce: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: WritebackTmp: 0 kB /proc/meminfo: CommitLimit: 124944 kB /proc/meminfo: Committed_AS: 10672 kB /proc/meminfo: VmallocTotal: 1048576 kB /proc/meminfo: VmallocUsed: 4088 kB /proc/meminfo: VmallocChunk: 1039572 kB /proc/meminfo: HugePages_Total: 0 /proc/meminfo: HugePages_Free: 0 /proc/meminfo: HugePages_Rsvd: 0 /proc/meminfo: HugePages_Surp: 0 /proc/meminfo: Hugepagesize: 1024 kB -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: s390 (s390x) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-s390x (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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