Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: 14-Sep-2003 16:15 116M http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux localhost 2.4.21-5-386 #1 Sun Aug 24 13:14:58 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux Date: 2003-09-15 Method: I've booted from an CDRW containing the above netinst.iso, no network because of missing PCMCIA-Packages and therefore no proxy. Machine: IBM ThinkPad 600E Processor: Mobile Pentium II, 366 Mhz Memory: 128M Root Device: IDE /dev/hda1 Root Size/partition table: see below Output of lspci: Sorry, no network, no floppy and far too long to cutnpaste by hand :) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [o] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Okay, here we go - step by step: - booted with 'linux vga=791' - Choose Language: Deutsch/Deutschland (many menupoints are still english. I guess this is known and more or less on whishlist :) - Detect a keyboard and select layout: [de-latin1-nodeadkeys] - Detect CDROM devices - Load installer modules: cdrom-retriever, none chosen This list is fairly long and complicated for a newbie (but let's imagine I know what I am doing here... ;) - Detect hardware and load kernel drivers for it (full version) loaded ide-scsi and scsi_mod additionally (checked using lsmod) - switching to console 2 and running cfdisk returns "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive"?!? So I tried "automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) which created 3 partitions: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 3810208+ Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 2487240 extended /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 2487208+ Linux swap Since the / partition was created as ext2 and I want ext3 I rebooted and went through everything again - leaving out partitioning ... - Configure and Mount Partitions - /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 3.6 GiB ext3 - Create ext3 file system - mount at / - /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 2.4 GiB swap - Create swap space - Finish... - Install the base system - Install the kernel It's kinda irritating to see the "Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) here, but I guess, it's because I missed that point during the second installation. But it shouldn't be there if I mounted partitions already? - debian-installer utility for creating fstab file - kernel-image-2.4.21-5-386 - Install GRUB on a hard disk (hd0) ... 40%, ... ... ... (translated back from german:) Unable to install GRUB into (hd0) grub-installer's postinst exited with status 256 Okay, this didn't work, so let's try - Install LILO on a hard disk (the grub-installer-screen flashed to the foreground for a second?) LILO is going to install a "Totoblock" (At least it's called Totoblock in the german translation?) - /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc (the grub-installer-screen flashed once more to the foreground - still at 40%) Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system. Added Linux * - Finish the installation and reboot (once again the grub-installer-screen) Disc gets ejected and I continue - LILO boots - I can shortly see a problem with missing PCMCIA-modules (which sucks on a notebook) before base-config starts - base-config runs - but since it's not the installer I stop describing here - switching to console2 shows that I still have an english keyboard-layout? BTW - I've just noticed that you can login as root/<no pword> before base-config did it's work :-( - /root/dbootstrap_settings shows that languagechooser inserted LANG_INST, LANGUAGE_INST, kbd-chooser KEYBD and prebaseconfig SUITE variables. Those include the german keyboard-layout and language settings I've chosen, but it's not being used? Okay, so far for my report - waiting for the next netinst-image with PCMCIA before testing again :-) Balu
