Package: installation-reports
Boot method: netinst cdrom
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: Sat Nov 18 18:25:10 CET 2006
Machine: home-built pc: MSI K8N-neo4 motherboard with nforce4 chipset
Processor: AMD64 3200+
Memory: 2GB
Partitions: pre-partioned disk like this
system was installed on sda8 (/boot) and sda9 (root), which other
partitions inside the lvm
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 144584 72261 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 144585 41367374 20611395 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 41367375 240974999 99803812+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 240975000 312576704 35800852+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 41367438 42379469 506016 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 42379533 120503564 39062016 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda7 120503628 239834384 59665378+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda8 * 239834448 239978969 72261 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 239979033 240974999 497983+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 625137344 312568641 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 63 625137344 312568641 fd Linux raid autodetect
Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn:
00:00.0 Memory controller [0580]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller
[10de:005e] (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge [10de:0050] (rev
a3)
00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus [10de:0052] (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller
[10de:005a] (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller
[10de:005b] (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
Audio Controller [10de:0059] (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE [10de:0053] (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
[10de:0054] (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
[10de:0055] (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge [10de:005c] (rev
a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller [10de:0057]
(rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map [1022:1101]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
01:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
[10b7:9200] (rev 78)
01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
[1102:0002] (rev 07)
01:09.1 Input device controller [0980]: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port
[1102:7002] (rev 07)
01:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon
X800 XL] (PCIe) [1002:554d]
05:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon X800 XL]
(PCIe) Secondary [1002:556d]
00:00.0 Memory controller [0580]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller
[10de:005e] (rev a3)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
Capabilities: [e0] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge [10de:0050] (rev
a3)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus [10de:0052] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at fc00 [size=32]
I/O ports at 4c00 [size=64]
I/O ports at 4c40 [size=64]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller
[10de:005a] (rev a2) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 58
Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller
[10de:005b] (rev a3) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
Memory at feb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [44] Debug port
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97
Audio Controller [10de:0059] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7585]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
I/O ports at f000 [size=256]
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE [10de:0053] (rev f2)
(prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at e000 [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:07.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
[10de:0054] (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=16]
Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:08.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller
[10de:0055] (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 233
I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 0960 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4]
I/O ports at b800 [size=16]
Memory at fe02a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:09.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge [10de:005c] (rev
a2) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fdf00000-fdffffff
00:0a.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller [10de:0057]
(rev a3)
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device [1462:7125]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 225
Memory at fe029000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at b400 [size=8]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: fdd00000-fddfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fdc00000-00000000fdcfffff
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1
Enable+
Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
Capabilities: [80] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
00:0c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00008000-00008fff
Memory behind bridge: fdb00000-fdbfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fda00000-00000000fdafffff
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1
Enable+
Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
Capabilities: [80] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00007000-00007fff
Memory behind bridge: fd900000-fd9fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fd800000-00000000fd8fffff
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1
Enable+
Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
Capabilities: [80] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
00:0e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge [10de:005d]
(rev a3)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
Memory behind bridge: fd700000-fd7fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1
Enable+
Capabilities: [58] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
Capabilities: [80] Express Root Port (Slot+) IRQ 0
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration [1022:1100]
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Address Map [1022:1101]
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
DRAM Controller [1022:1102]
Flags: fast devsel
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103]
Flags: fast devsel
01:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
[10b7:9200] (rev 78)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation Unknown device [10b7:1000]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 66
I/O ports at ac00 [size=128]
Memory at fdeff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fdf00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
01:09.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1
[1102:0002] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device [1102:8064]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
I/O ports at a800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
01:09.1 Input device controller [0980]: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port
[1102:7002] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device [1102:0020]
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at a400 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
01:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Unknown device [0574:086c]
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 217
Memory at fdefe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
I/O ports at a000 [size=128]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon
X800 XL] (PCIe) [1002:554d]
Subsystem: Club-3D BV Unknown device [196d:1047]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fd7f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
I/O ports at 6c00 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fd700000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
05:00.1 Display controller [0380]: ATI Technologies Inc R430 [Radeon X800 XL]
(PCIe) Secondary [1002:556d]
Subsystem: Club-3D BV Unknown device [196d:1046]
Flags: fast devsel
Memory at fd7e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O] (but see below)
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O] (but see below)
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E] (see below)
Overall install: [O]
Comments/Problems:
Overall thet installation went pretty well. I do have a few comments
and suggestion though:
During the network setup, the firewire interface is also presented as a
network device, even though it's not connected to anything. It also
uses a very generic name (something like "Ethernet 10/100", I don't
remember exactly), which confused me a bit, and will probably confuse
non-experiences users a lot more even.
This was an install on an existing system which alread has a sw-raid1
and lvm setup. The raid array was recognised perfectly.
The two volume groups for LVM were also detected correctly, and inside
the LVM configurator, all existing LVs were displayed. After the LVM
configuration, however, only the newly created LVs showed up in the
partition overview, and the existing LVs didn't. Therefore, it was not
possible to select my existing /home partition for mounting on /home,
nor to use my existing swap.
Also, I don't really like the overview of the VGs in the partition
overview after LVM is activated. Rather than displaying only
"partition" #1 in each LV with the description of the VG in a
subheading, I'd rather see a subheading describing each VG, with below
that all LVs that are defined in the VG; something like:
LVM VG vg_name - 320GB Linux device mapper volume group
lv_name_1 2.0GB f ext3 /usr
lv_name_2 3.0GB f ext3 /var
lv_name_3 4.0GB f ext3 /home
instead of
LVM VG vg_name, LV lv_name_1 - 2.0GB Linux device mapper
#1 2.0GB f ext3 /usr
LVM VG vg_name, LV lv_name_2 - 3.0GB Linux device mapper
#1 3.0GB f ext3 /var
LVM VG vg_name, LV lv_name_3 - 4.0GB Linux device mapper
#1 4.0GB f ext3 /home
I think that would make the entire view much clearer and less cluttered.
Furthermore, I'd like some possibility to mount tmpfs filesystems (on
/tmp for example) from the partitioner.
During the downloading of the packages, it might be nice to show the
download speed or the progress per file, especially when downloading a
large file (like openoffice). The display of the status bar and the
time remaining also suggests that they are coupled, which doesn't seem
to be the case: the downloading amounts only to 20% or so of the total
progress bar.
The grub installation didn't detect my old grub menu.list. It'ld be
nice if it could just use the old one and add a new entry.
The installation of grub on a partition is not very userfriendly and the
text on the screen is not very to the point. It would be much nicer if
here the installer would show a list of available partition and allow
one to choose from those, rather than manually entering partitions in
obscure grub notation. The help text on the screen
talks about IDE and SCSI disks, while there are only SATA drives in my
system; I guess the text is generic and not tailored for this specific
system, but then it is unclear what in a system with mixed IDE/SATA/SCSI
controllers would be the "first" harddisk etc.
After the reboot, gdm presented me with an error because X couldn't be
started, and after that I was sent back to a login prompt on tty1. I
expected the installer to continu, or to at least tell
me that the installation was done and how to continue now. Is this
intended, or did something go wrong in this case?
The not starting of X turned out to be a bug in the ati driver [1]. I
think this should be fixed before the release. Should be easy to do,
because Xorg should simply use the radeon driver directly for recent ATI
cards instead of relying on the ati driver to detect the card correctly.
The default desktop looks a bit starkers. A nice image on the desktop,
and maybe a "welcome to Debian" dialog would probably help a lot.
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6796
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