Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: daily built from 17-Dec-2003 http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/daily/ sarge-i386-netinst.iso 17-Dec-2003 07:34 120M uname -a: 2.4.22 Date: Sat Dec 20 18:07:00 CET 2003 Method: boot from IDE CD-ROM, using netinst ISO Machine: No-name desktop PC Processor: AMD Duron 900 MHz Memory: 448 MB Root Device: IDE Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 10) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 42) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [E] 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] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: This PC had two Ethernet devices, and one was connected to another machine running a DHCP server. netcfg showed: eth0: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet eth1: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet I selected eth1, but got an error. Unfortunately, it did not tell me at all what was wrong! After a bit I found out that it called /sbin/pump which failed with "error while loading shared libraries: libpopt.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". I see pump is being removed (#221227). I guess in netcfg-common.c, udhcpc should also be preferred to pump, i.e. those lines swaped: else if (stat("/sbin/pump", &stat_buf) == 0) dhcp_client = PUMP; and: else if (stat("/sbin/udhcpc", &stat_buf) == 0) dhcp_client = UDHCPC; Still, netcfg should show why the DHCP client failed. Also, since pump is broken, it should definitely not be installed for beta2! Also, the "eth1: Ethernet or Fast Ethernet" menu is nice, but damn if I know what eth0 and eth1 are... it would be cool to show the name of the device, perhaps that shown by lspci: eth0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 eth1: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX Since DHCP didn't work in the beginning (I later simply removed /sbin/pump so it would use /sbin/udhcpc instead), I configured a static address. I put in my info and was asked "Is this information correct?". I said "no", and did the whole thing again. It rememberd the IP address I typed in before, but it reset my gateway from 10.0.0.140 to 10.0.0.1. Also, a /etc/network/interfaces entry is generated which looks like this: iface eth1 inet static address ... netmask ... Please format/intend this more nicely: iface eth1 inet static address ... netmask ... After boot, eth0 and eth1 suddenly changed! I told debian-installer to use eth1 (the 3Com) for DHCP, but after reboot the 3Com was suddenly eth0! Also, when base-config asked me to type a root password, I accidentally had CAPS LOCK on. Perhaps you should recognize this and warn the user. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
