Package: installation-reports Severity: normal
INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: Tue Sep 23 13:36:10 CEST 2003 http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/floppy-image.img http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/net_drivers-image.img uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.20-1-386 Sat Mar 22 12:11:40 EST 2003 i686 unknown Date: Tue Sep 23 13:36:10 CEST 2003 Method: Booted off floppy, installed net drivers from floppy, rest of retreiving is via http through a proxy. Machine: COMPAQ DESKPRO Processor: Pentium III 600 MHz Memory: 128 MB Root Device: FUJITSU MPD3108AT, ATA DISK drive Root Size/partition table:i I don't have the partition table created by the installer handy. But it was something like 6 G linux root 2 G Windows/DOS unused 2.5 swap The windows/DOS + swap I have since combined into a 4 G play area and 256 M swap. Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03) 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E DC-133 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02) 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] (static config) Detect CD: [ ] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [E] Automatically Partition Hard Drives [O] Create file systems: [ok, done automatically above] Mount partitions: [ok, done automatically above ] Install base system: [E] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: Partition hard drives: [E] An error or warning message was logged while running partitioner partioner''s postinst exited with status 11 sda : block size assume to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table I don't have a SCSI drive on the system. Maybe it was confused about the ZIP drive? I then ran the autopartitioner. It succeeded, even if it gave me 2.5 G swap. I later (post installation) reduced the amount of swap. Install base system: [E] Installation appeared to fail the first time, or at least after I chose 'Install the base System' then waiting a few minutes I looked back and the main menu had chosen 'Install the base system again'. I chose that again and this time saw the following error messages: Base installation error debootstrap exited with an error (return value 1) You might find more information in /target/var/log/debootstrap.log # cat /target/var/log/debootstrap.log id: unknown group name: 0 [: 176: 0: unexpected operator ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists I ran it again and see that the first two errors appear in the log fairly early and don't appear to be fatal, the awk error might be the killer, I tried deleting /target/use/bin/awk and trying the install again. Now I get a treally nice looking error i: Setting up dpkg (1.10.10) Moving /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir mv: cannot stat '/usr/info/dir': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing dpkg (--install) So I did: rm /target/use/bin/awk mkdir /target/usr/info/dir And tried the base install again. mv: cannot overwrite non-directory '/usr/share/info/dir' with directory '/usr/info/dir' So I did: ls -l /target/usr/share/info/dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root . . . . rm /target//usr/share/info/dir rm /target/use/bin/awk It failed again with : mv: cannot overwrite non-directory '/usr/share/info/dir' with directory '/usr/info/dir' So I did rm -rf /target//usr/share/info/dir* while installing the base system, and it appeard to work, (the end of debootstrap.log looked ok, it ended with a bunch of start-stop-daemon calls, and then it said 'Hangup'. In the end I did: cp /usr/sbin/debootstrap /usr/sbin/debootstrap.real echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/sbin/debootstrap echo "exit 0" > /usr/sbin/debootstrap And it succeeded. After the reboot I had the same problem (complaining about /usr/share/info/dir) when apt tried to install dpkg. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux woof 2.4.22-1-686 #1 Fri Sep 5 23:04:29 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
