Package: installation-reports Version: daily snapshot 23 october Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff. in-between the kernel oopsing and partman driving me fucking nuts, i had errors from various mirrors until i grew a brain and used the main mirror. all of the other ones i tried failed in some way or another. after a certain point, the kernel would oops right when libc6 was being unpacked; then i'd start getting segfaults from d-i installing various packages. THEN it tells me "you can't have a separate /boot partition with quik" WHICH IS PATENTLY FALSE: /dev/sdb8 on / type xfs (rw) [snip] /dev/sdb7 on /boot type ext2 (rw) [snip] ls -l /boot total 18071 [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24513 2004-07-13 02:34 config-2.6.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24864 2004-09-15 17:31 config-2.6.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25591 2004-10-19 17:53 config-2.6.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2004-10-21 12:10 first.b [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2004-10-18 13:17 first.b.preserved drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 2004-08-28 18:01 instmnt drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2004-06-13 08:26 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2003-12-01 09:54 old.b [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 577 2004-09-20 07:04 quik.conf [snip] less /boot/quik.conf: [snip] default=linux timeout=30 root=/dev/sdb8 partition=8 [snip] ls -l /etc/quik.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2004-06-14 08:47 /etc/quik.conf -> /boot/quik.conf SINCE I AND OTHERS HAVE quik running happily in /boot. i was forced to restart the installation several times, in between which i quickly realised that it DOES NOT "keep its place" in the process of installing, uses devfs which only gets in the way, and since i'm forced to use the floppies, i have no way to actually put the whole thing into the semblance of a sois-disant expert mode. the good news is after the many restarts and numerous problems, i was able to install everything but quik. i rebooted the machine, hoping to not have to go through the entire install again (which it seems i have to, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T), so i can at least run an apt-get command to install quik and configure it manually. i see this installer as a step backwards from woody or even potato - where's the configurability and flexibility? we're forced into some mould so that everything is homogeneous and vanilla? no thanks. Debian-installer-version: october 23 2004, http://people.debian.org/luther/ uname -a: 2.4.27-powerpc-small Date: early morning of oct. 23 Method: How did you install? floppy What did you boot off? floppy Proxied? no Machine: Powertower Pro 200 Processor: PPC 603e Memory: 192 MB Root Device: SCSI, /dev/sda Root Size/partition table: N/A Output of lspci and lspci -n: Bus 0: device 11 function 0 Host Bridge Apple Bandit host bridge (rev 3) IRQ 22 Display Controller Integrated Micro Solutions IMS9128 (Twin Turbo 128) IRQ 23 Liteon Communications LNE100TX Grand Central I/O AMI Megaraid Bus 1: Host Bridge Apple Bandit #2 host bridge Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D AIC-7881U (rev 0) 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: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [E/O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [E/O] Install base system: [E/O] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: d-i sucks. officially. i spent 6 hours trying to install stuff. in-between the kernel oopsing and partman driving me fucking nuts, i had errors from various mirrors until i grew a brain and used the main mirror. all of the other ones i tried failed in some way or another. after a certain point, the kernel would oops right when libc6 was being unpacked; then i'd start getting segfaults from d-i installing various packages. THEN it tells me "you can't have a separate /boot partition with quik" WHICH IS PATENTLY FALSE: /dev/sdb8 on / type xfs (rw) [snip] /dev/sdb7 on /boot type ext2 (rw) [snip] ls -l /boot total 18071 [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24513 2004-07-13 02:34 config-2.6.6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24864 2004-09-15 17:31 config-2.6.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25591 2004-10-19 17:53 config-2.6.9 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2004-10-21 12:10 first.b [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2004-10-18 13:17 first.b.preserved drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 1024 2004-08-28 18:01 instmnt drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2004-06-13 08:26 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2003-12-01 09:54 old.b [snip] -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 577 2004-09-20 07:04 quik.conf [snip] less /boot/quik.conf: [snip] default=linux timeout=30 root=/dev/sdb8 partition=8 [snip] ls -l /etc/quik.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2004-06-14 08:47 /etc/quik.conf -> /boot/quik.conf SINCE I AND OTHERS HAVE quik running happily in /boot. i was forced to restart the installation several times, in between which i quickly realised that it DOES NOT "keep its place" in the process of installing, uses devfs which only gets in the way, and since i'm forced to use the floppies, i have no way to actually put the whole thing into the semblance of a sois-disant expert mode. the good news is after the many restarts and numerous problems, i was able to install everything but quik. i rebooted the machine, hoping to not have to go through the entire install again (which it seems i have to, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T), so i can at least run an apt-get command to install quik and configure it manually. i see this installer as a step backwards from woody or even potato - where's the configurability and flexibility? we're forced into some mould so that everything is homogeneous and vanilla? no thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (1000, 'unstable'), (998, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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