Package: installation-reports This is purely for the record - no problems to report on a straightforward installation. Until this daily build one thing or the other always broke ;-)
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Netinst daily build 20050117 uname -a: Linux test 2.6.8-power4 #1 Sat Jan 8 18:52:26 CET 2005 ppc GNU/Linux Date: Jan 18 1230 PST Method: Boot of CD with install-power4 kernel Machine: Dual Apple G5 PowerMac7,3 Processor: 970FX 2Ghz Memory: 512MB Root Device: 160G SATA Drive, /dev/sda (In d-i i think /dev/discs/disc0) Boot partition at /dev/sda2 (800k) Swap partition at /dev/sda3 (1G) Linux on a single test partition at /dev/sda7 (ext3) (4G) MacOS X on /dev/sda5 (HFS+) 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: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: Flawless install! d-i chosen single processor power4 kernel reports processor : 0 cpu : PPC970FX clock : 2000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) bogomips : 1196.03 machine : PowerMac7,3 motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 512K unified memory : 0MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-smp and rebooted processor : 0 cpu : PPC970FX clock : 2000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) bogomips : 1331.20 processor : 1 cpu : PPC970FX clock : 2000MHz revision : 3.0 (pvr 003c 0300) bogomips : 1331.20 total bogomips : 2662.40 machine : PowerMac7,3 motherboard : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh detected as : 336 (PowerMac G5) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 512K unified memory : 0MB pmac-generation : NewWorld Thermal controls work fine at all times; all fans are quiet :-)