Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/ \ sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso (2004-04-30) uname -a: Date: 2004-05-16; 15:00 EET Method: Base system from CD, network install after boot; used ftp.fi.debian.org as mirror; CD was external USB drive
Machine: VIA EPIA Processor: C3 1GHz Memory: 512MB Root device: /dev/hda Partition table: /dev/hda1 /boot (75M) [ext3] /dev/hda5 / (530M) [ext3] /dev/hda6 /usr (5.5G) [xfs] /dev/hda7 /var (2G) [xfs] /dev/hda8 /tmp (1.2G) [xfs] /dev/hda9 /home (15G) [xfs] /dev/hda10 /mnt/www (1G) [xfs] /dev/hda11 /mnt/media (97.5G) [xfs] 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: [O] Comments/Problems: As marked with '**' above, there are certain issues with partitioning. First, it is not exactly intuitive - the rest of the install is. Secondly, a person doing a relatively secure install will find himself shot on the foot. I chose mount options for /tmp: nodev,nosuid,noexec this was a bad idea. After boot, installer tries to execute the actual system install. For this, a script stored in /tmp is used. At the end of boot, the script can't execute because of noexec. There are some errors and then init will try to sleep. There is relatively little to do at this point. That was the first bug with partitioning. Solution would be to call the second stage installer always with /bin/sh, not trying to execute it directly. There was another issue with installer that I discovered because of this. The installer (or its current revision at least) can not be used as a rescue media. This is not the issue, but it caused the real discovery. Trying to do a reinstall: I was happy with the partition layout and wouldn't have wanted to set it again; only wanted to remove the noexec flag from /tmp. This proved to be impossible. The partitioning menu, when faced with existing layout and filesystems, only displays three selections. Editing the partition and its options is not one of them. (I know I should have taken a shot of the menu but was too struck to think of it.) In the end I didn't want to bother with trying to trick the installer to work with me, so I went with a fresh install after all. This time omitted noexec from /tmp. This install worked. There is one final issue with second stage of install. Setting up the packages winds up in an error. Hitting enter on "Install selected packages" results in apt-get pulling one more package (for my firewall setup, it was python; for my would-be server, it was indent); after that, the installation continues. -- Mika Boström \ / "World peace will be achieved [EMAIL PROTECTED] X when the last man has killed Security freak / \ the second-to-last." -anon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
