Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the image>
Debian GNU/Linux testing "Sarge" - Official NetInst Snapshot i386 Binary-1
(20030925)
uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt>
Linux server 2.4.22-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 5 20:56:48 EST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: <Date and time of the install>
27 September 22.00 GMT or so
Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
CD ROM
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
Self build
Processor: Celeron 1200
Memory: 640M (2x256, 1x128)
Root Device: <IDE? SCSI? Name of device?>
IDE 40GB - hda below
hda: Maxtor 4D040H2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Disk drive: /dev/hda
Size: 40982151168 bytes, 40.9 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per track: 63 Cylinders: 4982
hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 39637.63
hda5 Logical Linux swap 1340.73
Output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x]
(rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x
AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev
40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master
IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev
40)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture
(rev 02)
00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev
02)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B-Combo [Deluxe Etherlink XL
10/100]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev
15)
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O/E]
Config network: [O/E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O/E]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [O]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Network: appeared to configure well on the initial install so [O]
- on reboot, no module inserted for my card (3Com 3C900) which had
been correctly detected - so no network, so no working apt-get. [E].
Stanza for the card had been correctly configured in /etc/network/interfaces.
File systems: Appeared to create correct partitions on initial install as
ext3 [O] but no journal created, so not ext3 on reboot [E]. Not an enormous
problem. As part of this, I used the "unsafe" auto partitioning. I was
surprised that it didn't touch the second disk at all.
Install base system: kernel failed at 50% - having read Tom V.'s very similar
comment, I was able to manually mount the CD-ROM (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd
/cdrom) - no /target here - and do an apt-get -f install which fixed this. The
next pass through installed the kernel.
Boot loader - caused in part by the kernel install error, it fixed when the
kernel install fixed.
No configured hostname correct - left as localhost
No correct keyboard - left with US and can't reconfigure with dpkg-reconfigure
console-common - left with message
Looking for keymap to install:
uk
Warning cannot access console;
deferring until console is accessible.
no /dev/cdrom available as configured {B-(
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
Good install process over all. Hardware detection was relatively OK.
Too many modules to select as extras should you wish it.
Some dialogue boxes seemed a fraction oversized.
This is my most capable machine so has stuff like the TV card :)
All in all, it bodes well for the future :)
