Package: installation-reports
Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-13
Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version:
Daily-built images from Joey Hess : net-initrd.gz, vmlinuz.
Got Fri Dec 13 around 18:00 CET
(so this report doesn't concern the alpha release)
Date: Fri Dec 13 ~18-19:00 CET 2002
Method:
Network install, initrd and kernel put on /boot and booted with
grub.
Machine: Standard i386 PC
Processor: pentium II
Memory: 128 MB
Root Device: IDE (hda)
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 * 1 7 56196 83 /boot
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 8 40 265072+ 82 swap
/dev/discs/disc0/part4 41 616 4626720 5 Extended
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 41 232 1542208+ 83 /home
/dev/discs/disc0/part6 233 360 1028128+ 83 /var/cache/apt
/dev/discs/disc0/part7 361 488 1028128+ 83 future hurd /
/dev/discs/disc0/part8 489 616 1028128+ 83 /
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev
03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev
03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [Riva TnT2] (rev 11)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [~] (see below...)
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [E]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
* Things that have failed seriously
- partitioner : i have launched the partitioning menu item two
times. The first time it worked (althrough the default menu item
stuck at this step), the second time it hangs, after giving dozens
of error message about "Unknown localized fields", regarding
Description-xx and Extended_description-xx (with xx being country
codes). I killed dpkg-reconfigure : it gets re-launched. So i had
to kill main-menu...
- ... But it refuses to start again. /sbin/debian-installer (i
think) is looping trying to start it, but it complains about
debian-installer.so.3 missing. Maybe new installer modules have
been installed at this point, and this library is no longer
available ? (i restarted install and launched fdisk only once...)
- making filesystem : I select the menu item. It does just nothing,
and the main menu is immediately re-displayed. Trying
dpkg-reconfigure by hand displays the same errors as for the
partitioner. (i made filesystems by hand).
- mounting : same symptoms as for the previous step. But trying
dpkg-reconfigure, it seems that the packages has't been configure
yet ("not fully installed"). Trying udpkg --configure outputs raw
debconf protocol. "debconf di-utils-blahblah.postinst" in
/var/lib/dpkg/info terminates immediately and silently. (i mounted
filesystems by hand).
- base system install : idem. (i debootstrapped by hand, chrooted
into my new shiny system and configured it.)
* Things that work, but seem to have some problems
- during network configuration : hardware configuration is fine (i
did it the manual way, i use an isa nic in this computer). I
dont't remember exactly, but i think one week ago there was a
default value that was displayed for the gateway parameter (i can
be wrong...), whereas there weren't any this time.
What have retained my attention is that the summary contained only
"interface=eth0", whereas last week it contained all the
parameters. The network setup if fine, however.
Also note that when you run the network setup a second time, it
fails while trying to add the route (which already exists). Simply
putting the interface down before (re-)configuring it should solve
this.
- every syslog()ed message make kmod output a message about a failed
modprobe of net-pf-1... No harm, but makes reading messages a bit
harder ;)
- For question "Select hard drive", since there is only one in my
computer, cdebconf doesn't present me with choices, and answers
itself (good), but the question text is still printed...
Thanks for having read so far ;)
Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux ganja 2.4.19 #1 dim nov 3 03:04:16 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
