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http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20041009/sarge-i386-netinst.iso downloaded and burned to cd-r on a winxp system w/ nero 5. uname -a: Linux theta 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Mon Sep 13 23:29:55 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 10/10/2004 Method: install via boot to cd attached to secondary slave ide Network: static ip on private network, connected to internet via hardware router/firewall Machine: home built dfi via-based motherboard (see lspci output for details) 1 x 512mb ddr333 1 x 80gb wdc sata on first connector 1 x 80gb wdc ide as primary-master 1 x cdrw/dvd ide as secondary-slave Processor: xp2800+ barton Memory: 512mb ddr333 1 module Root Device: /dev/sda sata 80gb Root Size/partition table: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1023 8217216 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 1024 9729 69930945 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1024 6378 43014006 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 6379 6390 96358+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 6391 9612 25880683+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 9613 9729 939771 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 2 9729 78140160 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 2 4865 39070048+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 4866 8108 26049366 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda7 8109 9729 13020651 b W95 FAT32 theta:/home/admin# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 25474252 218508 23961712 1% / tmpfs 258304 0 258304 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda6 90297 6476 79004 8% /boot Output of lspci and lspci -n: theta:/home/admin# 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 0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:0f.1 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) 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 0000:00:10.3 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) 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) theta:/home/admin# lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3205 0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198 0000:00:0f.0 0104: 1106:3149 (rev 80) 0000:00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) 0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 0000:00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81) 0000:00:10.3 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) 0000:00:12.0 0200: 1106:3065 (rev 78) 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] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E] see below(1) Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [E] see below(2) Reboot: [E] see below(3)(4) Comments/Problems: (1) any of the guided partition schemes using largest block of free space wanted to create an active primary partition for the root filesystem after the extended partition. i thought that might mess up the existing 98/xp install; so manually partitioned as noted above knowing that linux can boot from pretty much anywhere. three partitions, boot root and swap, is what i have always used for a linux desktop (if linux is sole o/s, then i use three primaries for them). probably not much of a concern, it just didn't partition as expected (i had expected all logical drives, similar to my manual partitioning, since a parimary and extended already existed). (2) first attempt: allowed d-i to install grub on mbr of 'first drive' as it did properly detect the existing windows install (1 of them, identified as 2000/xp probably because of the xp bootloader). however, it must have considered the ide drive as the 'first drive' as that's where it put grub. second attempt: knowing the above, manually chose /dev/sda to install grub to mbr of the sata drive. it installed there as expected, however since d-i saw the ide as the 'first drive' and sata as the second it configured grub to boot to hd1,0 for windows and hd1,5 for linux. (3) which caused grub to not boot anything. had to manually edit grub paramaters to read hd(0,5) to boot linux. once to console, had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to read hd(0,0) for windows and hd(0,5) for linux entries. (4) during base-config's tasksel, i chose only manual package selection and got a slew of pre-selected packages (over 80, totalling 150+mb installed). a previous install using same netinst image but leaving all of tasksel's options empty resulted in those same packages being downloaded and installed automatically(!!) i had to abort aptitude's download, clear marked items and package cache in order to select and install what i wanted (which at this point is only ssh). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
