Package: installation-reports (This install tries onto a machine which I had a hard time installing other distro and OSs. The same CD as one used for #248110, so it is known good CD image.)
Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst.iso Beta-4 uname -a: 2.4.25-1-386 #2 ..... i686 Method: Tried expert mode Machine: Dell Latitude CPi Processor: P2 Memory: 256MB Root Device: / = hda3 (5G), /boot = hda1 (0.5G), swap = hda2 (0.5G) Conclusion: With minor gliches, d-i install was success. Key hardware issues: * CD-ROM has slow spin-up (Also this could not read CD-RW as boot media) * This is equipped with ISA(CS) based PCMCIA network card but d-i did not offer easy access of PCMCIA cards during initial boot process. Base System Installation Checklist: (with 2.4 kernel: expert) Initial boot worked: [O] (No fancy graphic boot screen) Configure network HW: [E] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [E] (Manually mounted) Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] (Used manual partition) 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 Note: Thanks to TAB-capable d-i shell, it was not too difficult to type ide-cdrom file location to mount it to /cdrom. (unlike normal /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 mounted to /cdrom, I ended up mounting /dev/ide-the-long-devfs-name to /cdrom). Since d-i did not offer PCMCIA card service (ISA) during install but installs pcmcia-cs package, after reboot I was left with empty /etc/network/interface and /etc/apt/sources.list. They were manually created with vi and apt-setup. Comment for improvement: *** CD ****: If mounting fails, second trial should have option to do mounting slower. (It looked to me some auto-mounter is used.) Slowing timeout of mounting process may be what is needed. This may be the feature to accommodate more hardwares. (Did I miss some boot parameters? If so, excuse me.) Also "verify CD" dialogue (which of course failed this time) needs to have some way to mount slowly too. **** PCMCIA/NET ****: I do not care to configure network automatically during the first boot process (it is nice though), but having some dialogue to set network skelton (DHCP vs. FIXED IP) and run apt-setup will be nice. (Skelton is a template file copied from /u/s/d/ifupdown/examples/*) Just having extra entry for network cards and some simple hack is all it needed. The supported network cards seem to assume PCI-type 32bit-cardbus. Not everyone have that although it is getting rare to see 10baseT ISA card. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
