Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 20040106 sarge-i386-businesscard.iso from http://people.debian.org/~manty/testing/netinst/i386/ uname -a: Linux narco 2.4.23-1-386 #1 Sun Nov 30 16:49:14 EST 2003 i586 GNU/Linux Date: 20040107 2110 Method: boot from CD, apt install with ftp Machine: Dell Latitude CP M233ST Processor: Pentium MMX 233Mhz Memory: 128MB RAM, 4GB HDD Root Device: /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1: Dell suspend-to-disk partition /dev/hda2: 180MB swap /dev/hda3: 3.5GB ext3 mounted as / Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430TX - 82439TX MTXC (rev 01) 00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01) 00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:01.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2160 [MagicGraph 128XD] 00:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) 00:03.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 01) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: An overview of the installation: * choose a language screen first line is (???? ??? ????? ????? (????? ????? is this supposed to contain anything meaningful? The cyrillic and chinese text is displayed correctly further down the list * I chose Nederlands (Belgie). I always use US English on my PC's, but I wanted to have a look at the translations default keyboard that is highlighted is Dutch, this should be be-latin1 if you choose Belgium as your country I have a uk keyboard on my laptop, so I chose that option * network card: modules are in reverse alphabetical order. Is this normal? I chose orinoco_cs, since I have Orinoco PCMCIA card. I then get a red screen: card was not found Maybe PCMCIA is not working yet ? But after continuing network light went on and dhcp server was found Question: It found my access point by itself (it's the only one around). What would happen if I needed to enter SSID/WEPkeys? * Bugs in the partconf nl translation "paritities" should be "partities" "Create ext2 file system", "Create ext3 file system", "Create reiserfs file system" messages not translated * After rebooting network was not activated! * Configuring console-data screen is untranslated I briefly saw an error flash by: KDGKBENT error: Failed to dump keymap I then expected to choose i386/qwerty/uk keymap, but it gave the error several times and then tried to install mac-uk keyboard for some reason. A bit later I was asked if I wanted the USB version of this mac keyboard. I tried to fix this manually with install-keymap on the console but it fails with the same error. Why didn't it remember I have a uk keyboard? * Time zone configuration screen uses 'systeemklok' and 'hardware klok' when referring to the same thing. It should only use one term. linux is spelled with a small l I always get Yes/No Ok/Cancel options. I expected these to be translated as well. I choose 'Europa' and get Australian cities! Had to select 'Indische oceaan' to get European cities * password for root dialog screen not translated type password again is translated "dag-dagelijks" should be "dagdagelijks" user account screen is untranslated several dialog titles are untranslated * it says "volgende stap installatiestap" somewhere. the "stap" in the middle should be removed. * why isn't the mirror I selected earlier remembered? somewhere one of the occurences of "mirror" is not translated in "spiegelserver" network failure: apt couldn't contact server (network still isn't active), so I had to switch to console and do /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart to fix this. * exim4-config several typos: "emaill" -> "e-mail" "afgelevert" -> "afgeleverd" "Allle" -> "Alle" "e-mail" en "E-mail" are both used -> pick one and stick to it exim4-config asks a lot of questions... If I choose local delivery, why does it want a list of IP addresses to listen on? Install finished! * kernel still gives me problems with networking and keymap. I had unstable running on this machine before the install, so I try to install the self-compiled kernel package I was using then. When installing this, the lilo installation part fails because it can't find /initrd.img. It was already renamed to initrd.old on the disk, but lilo.conf still refered to initrd.img. I also have a warning about /proc/partitions using ide/host0/... and lilo.conf having /dev/hda I manually fixed lilo.conf and rebooted The old kernel still doesn't solve keymap and network problems... My keyboard is set to us instead of uk, and I have to run either /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart or /etc/init.d/networking restart to get it to work. I can provide dmesg output or the debian-installer logs if needed. Greetings, Bastiaan -- Bastiaan Van Eeckhoudt bastiaan[at]vaneeckhoudt[dot]net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
