Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Tue Aug 03 07:00:00 CEST 2004 http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer uname -a: Linux balu 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Tue Aug 04 19:00:00 CEST 2004 Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network install, from where? Proxied? Medium: Installer CD - sarge-i386-netinst.iso Boot: ATAPI DVD-ROM Install: network install over DHCP ADSL router without proxy. ftp.debian.de Machine: Self build :-) Board: MSI MS-7021 KT6V-LSR, VIA KT600 PCI: Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI Realtek 8139C Creative Labs SB Live! 1024 (EMU10k1) IDE: Maxtor 4D080H4 80GB IDE PLEXTOR DVDR PX-712A TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502 SCSI: Plextor PX-40TSi AGP: MSI GeForce2 MX/MX 400 TFT-Display: Fujitsu X19-1 Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, Model 8, 256 KB L2 Memory: 2 * 256 MB DDR 333 Infineon Root Device: IDE, /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where. Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 14726 7421872+ 83 Linux ReiserFS /dev/hda2 14727 18795 2050776 83 Linux Ext2 /dev/hda3 18796 22864 2050776 83 Linux Swap /dev/hda4 22865 158816 68519808 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 22865 81187 29394760+ 83 Linux ReiserFS /dev/hda6 81188 158816 39124984+ 83 Linux ReiserFS hda1 -> / hda2 -> /var hda3 -> swap hda5 -> /data1 (opt, home, www) hda6 -> /data2 (archive disk) Output of lspci and lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 0000:00:06.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface 0000:00:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 0000:00:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08) 0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev 01) 0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South] 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3189 (rev 80) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198 0000:00:06.0 0780: e159:0001 0000:00:07.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 08) 0000:00:07.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 08) 0000:00:08.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10) 0000:00:0a.0 0100: 1000:000c (rev 01) 0000:00:0f.0 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) 0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 0000:00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86) 0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3227 0000:00:11.5 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 60) 0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev b2) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] (DHCP server in ADSL router) Config network: [O] nothing done, fully automatic Detect CD: [E] 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: Although I'm a software engineer I'm also doing the system administration at our company. I have installed about 50 Suse, Redhat and Solaris systems in the last 4 years. But my favorite system is Debian. I'm using it since 1997 on all my private machines. Most times the Unstable version :-) Congratulations for the new debian installer - in my opinion it's the biggest step in the debian history. Now my comments: - "Detect CD" Error - no fstab entry has been created for the Plextor SCSI CD-Rom - it would be nice to have some display resolution dialog at the beginning of the installation. The installer chose a quite bad resolution for my TFT. - it would be nice to have a direct kernel version selection dialog/comment at the beginning of the installation. I started the installation twice until I booted with linux26. The VIA KT600 Mainboards needs 2.6, otherwise (Kernel 2.4 which seems to be the default) DMA is not supported and the installation takes extreme long time. - the first and second installation menu seems to be a little bit inconsistent. The first dialog contains the text "affects default locale, ... and keyboard layout...". The second dialog has the title "Select a keyboard layout". In my opinion the "keyboard layout" text in the first dialog is wrong. - I did a manual patitioning, because I prefer the var device to be ext2. I have seen systems with harddisk defects which locked after several minutes. Because the systems had /var on a ReiserFS partition the logs containing the harddisk warnings have been rolled back after system reboot. It took much time to find the reason for the system freeze :-( I think the debian partitioning tool is quite good. But I have seen two a little bit unhandy things: - it's quite difficult to find how to define a partition as swap partition - if a set a partition to a mount point and afterwards want to set another partition to a mount point, the already used mount point is shown again in the list of available mount points - I found no network configuration dialog. Ok the system was configured through the DHCP server of my ADSL router automatically, and this setup was ok during installation. But I had to change the network to a fixed IP by hand in the configuration files. The installer not even asked if I want to use the found DHCP server or if I want to setup my network manually. - The first boot hangs more than one minute at "starting MTA". I already worried a little bit about a potential systeme freeze... After I configured my MTA (postfix) there were no more boot delayes. That's it. If you have further questions please contact me. Cheers Martin Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
