Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 12 apr 2004 from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20040412/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
note: read somewhere it's better to be too detailed than sketchy.. :) so everything i could think of and then some is included here. uname -a: Linux delta 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 12 apr 2004, started 22:30 -500 Method: boot from cd burned from downloaded iso, boot device hdc Machine: home-brew athlon xp, see after template text for full specs Processor: xp1600 Memory: 768mb Root Device: ide hda Root Size/partition table: (generated from cfdisk) Partition Table for /dev/hda ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- ----------- 1 0x80 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 11 63 192717 2 0x00 0 1 12 0x83 254 63 1023 192780 79843050 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 Partition Table for /dev/hdb ---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of # Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors -- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- ----------- 1 0x00 1 1 0 0x83 254 63 181 63 2923767 2 0x00 0 1 182 0x83 254 63 1023 2923830 36933435 3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0 output of df.... Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 39294252 171464 37126712 1% / tmpfs 387828 0 387828 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 90297 5123 80357 6% /boot /dev/hdb2 18176688 32872 17220484 1% /home /dev/fd0 1424 1320 104 93% /floppy see below for filesystem types Output of lspci: (verbose) 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: dc000000-ddffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d0000000-d7ffffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at d000 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 0000:00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 3300 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3 I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] I/O ports at e000 [size=4] I/O ports at e400 [size=4] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 0000:00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: AOPEN Inc.: Unknown device 0027 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0 output of dmesg.... Linux version 2.4.25-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)) #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff3000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000002fff3000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 767MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 found SMP MP-table at 000f66c0 hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 196592 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 192496 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694 ) @ 0x000f80c0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x2fff3000 ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x2fff3040 ACPI: MADT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x2fff5880 ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16 Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Processors: 1 Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1394.447 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2778.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 772028k/786368k available (1079k kernel code, 13952k reserved, 465k data, 92k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ stepping 02 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 number of MP IRQ sources: 20. number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #2...... .... register #00: 02000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 02 ....... : Delivery Type: 0 ....... : LTS : 0 .... register #01: 00178011 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : PRQ implemented: 1 ....... : IO APIC version: 0011 .... register #02: 00000000 ....... : arbitration: 00 .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 03 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 41 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71 0a 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 79 0b 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 81 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1 10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 0:2 IRQ1 -> 0:1 IRQ3 -> 0:3 IRQ4 -> 0:4 IRQ5 -> 0:5 IRQ6 -> 0:6 IRQ7 -> 0:7 IRQ8 -> 0:8 IRQ9 -> 0:9 IRQ10 -> 0:10 IRQ11 -> 0:11 IRQ12 -> 0:12 IRQ13 -> 0:13 IRQ14 -> 0:14 IRQ15 -> 0:15 .................................... done. Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 1394.4776 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 265.6147 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 2656147, slice: 1328073 CPU0<T0:2656144,T1:1328064,D:7,S:1328073,C:2656147> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb590, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P3) -> 10 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P3) -> 10 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P2) -> 3 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 11 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 10 Applying VIA southbridge workaround. PCI: Enabling Via external APIC routing Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A COMX: driver version 0.85 (C) 1995-1999 ITConsult-Pro Co. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 3540 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/done. Freeing initrd memory: 3540k freed VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide: late registration of driver. VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive hdb: SAMSUNG SV2044D, ATA DISK drive blk: queue f0826520, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue f082665c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: ATAPI CD-RW CW4801, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: DVD-ROM DDU1621, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=79408/16/63, UDMA(100) hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: 39862368 sectors (20410 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=39546/16/63, UDMA(66) Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [4982/255/63] p1 p2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [2481/255/63] p1 p2 Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,66), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP] parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378 lp0: using parport0 (polling). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA97 (Unknown) via82cxxx: board #1 at 0xDC00, IRQ 3 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 09:07:29 Feb 24 2004 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 10 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 Base System Installation Checklist: 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: [E] network gone on reboot; booting to knoppix, gnoppix or morphix live cd's confirm h/w and connection are ok. [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: after running through the sarge d-i process a couple dozen times since the release of d-i beta 2, with varying degrees of sucess, i felt a detailed installation log and installation-report was overdue. also inspired because of some difficulties encountered with various versions (beta 3 and newer dailies) since last sunday evening. i wanted to fully document everything in detail that was done. for the most part, the d-i process has been fairly smooth until this past sunday, problems i've run into so far mainly have consisted of some odd or unexpected dependancies, configuration hassles, things that should be set-up during install aren't, etc.. however, i will leave this report to this specific problem and keep a running log of general observations, comments and suggestions about the install process for a later installation-report. i will just inject this much for now: anaconda. model d-i after it, at least in it's workflow and what it does/configures. you can keep the text-based install, but do everything anaconda does and in a similar order (including initial firewall configuration; x/gnome/kde vid/sound/burning/etc config). what happened this time (and previously un-recorded install runs, including 3 times this afternoon on my other test system) is system rebooted back into d-i and there's no network, even though i know the network is functioning just properly. a gnoppix or similar live cd was running just prior to this install run. this same thing happens using beta3 of the installer, just happens at a later point. system reboots into installer fine, base system and any other desired packages (here, typically gnome/gdm to get started with.. or even when no extra packages are selected during d-i) and system (ususally) works fine.... until system is rebooted the first time. then this same thing happens with same kernel boot messages. (usb stuff is up here...) Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device. eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device. SIOCSINETMASK: No such device SIOCSIBRDADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device. eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device. done. (serial stuff then clock follow...) i have tried three daily builds of d-i burned between 27 mar and 12 apr, along with released beta 3. and in one case, both business card and netinst versions. i've swapped hardware in one of my two test systems (both are based on same platform and motherboard; just different ide configurations and the one not listed below has a sblive) with no changes. i am fairly certain it's with an update in the base system that's retrieved automatically during install (or included on a newer netinst cd)... if i install from beta 3 netinst and then pull the plug on the network after it's fetched package lists, but before it downloads any base system updates, then the system functions just fine (a bit bare, but reboots and restarts dont affect anything). as soon as base system packages are updated, a simple reboot means no more network and the above error shows up during boot. newer netinst cd's have network fail after initial reboot back into d-i. system configuration (for system used in this install run)... home-brew xp 1600 based system built around an msi k7t-turbo2 (6330) motherboard, with 3x256mb memory (2 8 chip modules, 1 16 chip module in the third slot), 2 ide hard drives (40gb maxtor on hda, 20gb samsung on hdb), 2 ide optical drives (48x msi cdrw on hdc, 16x sony dvd rom on hdd), realtek 8139-based nic by aopen (a "c" chipset i think) and a generic geforce2mx 32mb agp video card. system bios is ms6330vms 3.6 (latest from msi), set to optimized defaults with the following modifications: boot order, serial port 1 set manually to com1, serial port 2 disabled, and on-board sound sb compatibility enabled. system is connected to a 2port kvm with a samtron 77v 17 inch monitor, older compaq 104key ps2 keyboard and a ms optical intellmouse explorer (usb connected using ps2 adapter to kvm). during all vital hardware detection sequences, kvm is switched to the debian system undergoing installation. internet connection is a t1, connected to same 10/100 switch as the ascend router. static addressing and registered name. installation media used (obtained off the burned cd)... Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20040412) downloaded from... http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/20040412/sarge-i386-netinst.iso cd created using... xppro using roxio 5 platinum and a 24x lg cdrw to a virgin 4x cdrw, burned at 4x. on a different, but similarily equipped (the "other" test system with a swapped-in hd w/ xp on it), computer. boot method... boot to the burned cd on hdc detailed d-i walkthrough... kernel boot prompt: hit enter choose a language prompt: hit enter (en_us is default) guessing the next screen is for keyboard layout (dvorak is an option), however no intro text is shown, the list takes up the entire screen vertically: hit enter (us is default) detecting hardware, loading installer components, detecting dhcp (should fail, as static configuration is needed). retry dhcp: no manual network configuration: ip, netmask, gateway, 2 name servers (space separating them), hostname, domain (fyi: hostname.domain entered is a fully qualified domain name) all entered ok partitioner loaded ok... selected manual partitioning blanked both hda and hdb partition tables and created the following primary partitions... hda1 100mb ext2 bootable mount point: /boot hda2 remainder ext3 mount point: / hdb1 1500mb swap (planning ahead for future memory upgrade); installer rounded down to 1.4 gb hdb2 remainder ext3 mount point: /home kudos on the (new routine for) guessing of what a newly created partition would be used for. i didn't have to modify hda2 or hdb2 once created. :) wrote changes to disk, d-i created file systems and began base system installation. time elapsed so far, about 15 minutes (includes writing this log..) checking tty3, all is going ok. base system installed. install grub to mbr on hd0: hit enter to accept cd ejected, hit enter at reboot prompt. get a "can't synthesize root hub events" message at the end of usb detection during startup. according to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg03094.html it can be ignored? system booted. hit enter at welcome screen gmt system time: no select time zone: central enter root password enter first user account details get system appears to not be connected to the internet message. do you want to install ppp? heck no, we're connected! switch to tty2 and login. sure enough, can't ping a thing. network is unreachable or unknown host errors. ifup -a reports already configured eth0 and lo devices, network config files look ok in /etc/ and /etc/network/ mount a floppy so i can create some text files for uname, lspci, dmesg, partition tables, etc... to take to a network-operational system to submit. back to installer, want to gracefully exit and try rebooting once. said no to ppp, selected http as apt surce (drilled down to ftp.us.debian.org). got failed to fetch errors. cancelled that section and got to the main menu. skipped down to configure mta. stepped through that config script and then finished to login prompt. reboot from tty2 session. locked scroll during bootup to get exact wording of kernel messages. login and network doesnt work (as expected). shutdown. leaving system intact (for a few days anyway) as-is in case someone wants some further information or has instructions for me to try. end of install log - end of this report. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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