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and subject line Closing old installation report #299165
has caused the Debian Bug report #299165,
regarding sparcstation lx installs, partman and silo problems
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
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Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20050309
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20050309/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso
uname -a: Linux blast 2.4.27-1-sparc32 #1 Tue Aug 24 01:05:41 PDT 2004 sparc
GNU/Linux
Date: 2005-03-10 2005-03-11
Method: How did you install? netboot cd
What did you boot off? netboot cd
Machine: sparcstation LX
Processor: sparc32 / sun4m
Memory: 96 MB / 32MB
Root Device: 4gb / 9gb
Root Size/partition table:
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
fsbe and sunvideo sbus bords installed. 4gb drive internal, 9gb drive
on fsbe.
using onbord cg6
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O*]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
[O*]
Comments/Problems:
This report is for three sepearte installs on the same system.
The first, with 96MB memory to the internal hard drive went fine.
The second, with 32MB memory to test low memory install, also went
fine. (Meaning either something was fixed in the last couple of weeks
or there is something differnt on the sparcstation 5 that causes base
install to fail.)
The third, with 32MB memory installing to the external 9.1GB disk had
a couple of problems.
When I selected the disk, it created a 9.1GB free space. (Big
improvement over the last time I tried to install to the external
disk.) I then created a 100MB /boot, and the free space got reduced
to 2.5GB. Creating 200MB swap and / on the rest acted as if I had a
2.6 GB disk. fdisk after install is complete is showing 27 heads, 171
sectors, 1107 cylenders. 2/3 of the disk is missing :-(
The external hard disk is not bootable. It appears silo was not
installed on it.
booting silo on the interal disk defaults to root=/dev/sda4, so silo
on it did not get overwritten. Using silo on the internal drive with
root=/dev/sdb4 works, but pretty much defeats the reasons for having a
second bootable drive.
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful
The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet.
In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.
You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.
If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.
Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.
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