Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC1, downloaded with jigdo in October 2004 uname -a: unknown Date: 13.1.2005 (was an old image, I know) Method: Booting by CD
Machine: Compaq desktop Processor: P3 Memory: 512M Root Device: /dev/hda3 Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1 = /boot, /dev/hda2 = swap, /dev/hda3 = / Output of lspci and lspci -n: 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: [ O] Create file systems: [ O] Mount partitions: [ O] Install base system: [O ] Install boot loader: [ E] Reboot: [ O] Comments/Problems: Installation on a new system worked fine. But there are some things, I hardly missed: 1. On a installed system it is not possible, to create or repair the bootloader. Mounting, and repartitioning went fine, but when I tried to install the new bootloader (either grub or lilo), it wanted to install basic libs, packages etc. ansd warned me, that it might crash. I said, o.k., do it still, and he began to overwrite the libs etc. and then hook up, because of a crash and dependencies. I tried hard, but there was no way, to reinstall the bootloader with the installation CDs. To reinstall teh bootloader, I used teh CDs from Jan 2003 (woody), where there is the opportunity, to choose an per example "rescbf24"-kernel to boot the system. Now my question: Will there be a rescue-system at the coming installation-CDs in the future ? I painfully miss it, because I often had to use old ones for easy rescueing a died system. Best regards and thank you very much for your work in the past and the future !! Hans-J. Ullrich -- Firma Ullrich-IT-Consult Inh.: Hans-J. Ullrich Münstedter Weg 10 31246 Oberg Tel.: 0160 8156 079 Ihr Berater für Ihre IT-Probleme !
