Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 05 July 2004
uname -a:
Date: 07 July 2004
Method: -Boot from floppy
-Install base from local proxy
(apt-proxy)
Machine: Generic
Processor: 486DX4/100
Memory: 64MB
Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda
Root Size/partition table: 1GB
Output of lspci: No PCI on this machine
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
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: [E]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
One of the last installation screens is to determine where you would
like to install grub. Choices are MBR or elsewhere. If you don't
choose MBR then elsewhere is suggested as grub notation (hd0) or
/dev/hda.
This is a problem. Users unfamiliar with grub won't necessarily know
that the first partion on the first hard drive is hd(0,1). It could be
hd(0,0) for instance, or even hd(1,1), both of which seem logical and
might be guessed...there appears to be no other help.
As for the suggestion of using /dev/hda... this won't work because none
of the old style drive paths are supported at this stage, so, no
/dev/hda, /dev/sda, /dev/hda1 etc etc. Drives are specified using 'new'
drive paths of /dev/ide/bus...blah/blah/blah which leaves the
instructions incorrect and the newby wondering whats going on.
Regards,
Craig
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