Package: installation-reports Version: daily 20040419 Severity: important
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: daily 20040419 uname -a: Date: 2004-apr-20 18:00 CET Method: netinst CD image Machine: Apple PowerBook G4 15" Processor: 1 PowerPC @ 867Mhz Memory: 512Mb Root Device: Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci: 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: [E] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I selected 'expert' installation and went trhough the selection of language, territory and keyboard. This step isn't working since when I select 'Mac Keyboard' then I get the 'Installation step failed' message. Both the network adapter (SUNGEM) and the wireless network adapter were found. I used the cable connection. Then I went to the partition step. I deleted all my partition and had 40Gb of free space. Then I select 'automatically partition the free space', I selected 'only one partition' and got a 39.4Gb for / and 512.7Mb for swap. I then selected 'finish and save' (or something similar) and the new message was the error 'Partition map has no partition map entry' with two options. I selected the 'fix' option and got a new error: 'unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition'. Then I select continue. The the root partition was formatted as ext3 and I got a new error message: 'the ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE1 master failed.' At this moment I went back to 'partition disks' menu that was showing me my selected schema: one root and one swap partition. I selected again 'finish and write..' and at the next screen I selected 'No', so I was back at the main menu. Here i selected again the 'partition disks' menu item and I got again my former schema! The one I deleted! (Apple, MacOSX. swap, root, home) So, starting from scrach, I dedided to partition manually my disk: deleted all partitions again and created all partitions manually, but I then got the same error about the 'partition map' At the end I selecte the menu 'configure and mount partition' that lead me to something like fdisk (but I still had the wrong keyboard layout!) and 'i'installed an partition map. I then went back to 'partition disks' and found a partition called 'Apple' of 32kb. I think this is the partition map that I delete previously. It is *very* important that partman will *not* allow people to remove this partition. Then I selected to automatically partition the free space and it used the same schema as before: 39G / and 512M swap. It formatted all partitions and complained about a missing 'apple_boot' partition required by yaboot. I think that the automatic partition should create such partition too. I finally managed to create all partitions but I missed the LVM: while it is present in the partman menu, it is not possible to mark created partition as available for LVM. so when I call the LVM menu it complains about missing partitions. When I ended creating all my partitions then I select 'finish partitioning and write ...' but the installer kept complaining about a missing Apple_boostrap partition of at least 820kb. The problem was that I did created the partition and it was more than 820kb and it was marked as NewWorld boot partition. I then switched back to 'partition a hard drive' to manually create a new partition map and a new Apple_bootstrap partition. When back to 'partition disks' menu the Apple_bootstrap partition wasn't recognized and partman suggested to use it as ext3 file system. (Tough it did not reformat that partition but still complained about the missing Apple_bootstrap partitiotion). Bye, Giuseppe -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-1-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
