Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 7-8-2004 Daily build image of sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux elisa 2.6.6-1-386 #1 Wed May 12 13:19:06 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 7-8-2004 Method: Used the cd image to install, booted initially from the cd, no proxy, connected to the internet through router/DHCP server Machine: Custom built, Motherboard = Soyo SY-K7VME Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Memory: 512 M Root Device: IDE hard drive, Western Digital Root Size/partition table: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 366015 101293 245194 30% / tmpfs 242476 0 242476 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 14514496 3930228 9846968 29% /home /dev/hda9 1921872 8239 1811096 1% /home2 /dev/hda7 1830261 9286 1723327 1% /tmp /dev/hda5 14418320 1867896 11818016 14% /usr /dev/hda6 2883672 413864 2323324 16% /var Output of lspci: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset Host Bridge 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) 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 ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: I originally downloaded the CD corresponding to the beta4 version. Unfortunately this version could not get its address from DHCP. The time expired before the process could complete. I had a CD for the woody install process which did properly work with DHCP. This problem has been corrected since the daily build CD did get its address through DHCP. In the installation process, I used the daily build cd for 7-8-2004 and expert26 option at the boot prompt. The other two problems I had were with the built-in video card and the soundcard. I got the video card working properly with some adjustments. The soundcard is not working yet, but I am really not that concerned about it since I do not really use it. I do not consider these things to be bugs in the installer since I cannot elimiate the possibility that I did something wrong in the setup or that the motherboard may be a little new and not yet perfectly supported. On the built-in video card, I used the auto-detect capabilities whenever possible. Overall, these functions did a very good job. The only error in my XF86Config-4 file was the video card driver. I forgot which one was orginally selected (maybe apm?), but the first thing I did was change that value to "via". This only partially worked, I could only get the lowest possible resolution. After a little research, I decided to try the "vesa" driver. This worked, I got the resolution up to 1600x1200. I am not sure why this worked, but I do not think it does any harm to my system since it does work. On the soundcard, I do not know much because I am not that motivated to look at the problem. I only know that the kernel appears to load the drivers, but the soundcard is not available in /proc/asound/cards. It may be that some oss drivers are interfering with some alsa drivers. I may try to compile a custom 2.6 kernel with sound modules as loadable and use alsa. But as I said, I did not really research this. On the plus side, the usb support worked very well although I only have a usb mouse to test it with. Also, I orginally used a PS/2 mouse and I did not change the XF86Config-4 file when I changed to the usb mouse. Despite that, the system still worked fine and so I do not see a reason to change the XF86Config-4 file. One other suggestion, on the website http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ it says "After using the Debian-Installer, please send us an installation report using the template, so we can track and fix any problems you may find." After following the template link, I noticed that the report is submitted to a bug list. Since I don't consider what I have to be a bug, I was not going to report it. I asked on IRC and they said they want to collect all experiences with the installer (which is what I thought since if I was creating an installer, I would want all reports given the difficulty in testing many configurations). I suggest you add an extra sentence, something like "We also encourage all successful installation reports to be sent using this template so that we can get as much information as possible on the largest number of hardware configurations". You may get more reports this way. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
