Bug#279936: [i386][20041104][netinst] partial success: Dell PowerEdge 1850

[Vincent McIntyre]

I tested this hardware again, with i386 netinst 20041110.

Now the megaraid2 module is loaded correctly, yay.
The partitioner starts normally, detecting a 73GB RAID-0 partition.

Hence, I'm closing this report.
Thanks all







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Re:%20Bug#279681: serious problem with "Host Protected Area"

[teknotik]

I have a very similar problem on my Gericom EGO laptop. After getting the Grub 
error reported, I tried to overwrite GRUB with LILO. LILO just puts 'L' on the 
screen before freezing.
 
Can anyone advise/assist me with this problem? At the moment, my laptop is 
unusable, and I can't see a way of fixing it :(
 
Phil

Re: Search for patched yaboot testers ...

[Sven Luther]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:43:02PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:29:09PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >>I was going to wait until I could try it with a "normal" image.  I
> >>assume that this means I would not have encountered this problem then.
> >>
> >>So should I submit a bug report against "monolithic", or is it a 
> >>"known
> >>problem -- bug report would be redundant"?
> >
> >monolithic is mostly there only for testing and development, so it 
> >should not
> >be important.
> >
> >Ethan just said he had only very few success reports, and would like 
> >more
> >testing, despite the tests i already got, and Leigh Brown haven tested 
> >it
> >successfully on his 7043-140 or whatever it was. Both HD and CD, since 
> >NET is
> >broken anyway on this one ?
> >
> >Colin, could i ask you to test the patch and write a "it works" report 
> >to the
> >bug report, and Rick, did you ever fill a followup to the bug report, 
> >could
> >you please do so, and any others that have tested it provide feedback 
> >too ?
> 
> I believe I did file a followup to the bug report.  If I didn't, I will 
> as soon as I get a chance to try installing your patched yaboot .deb 
> and run ybin -- next week when I have access to the hardware again 
> (I'll be in Atlanta until Sunday evening.  Monday will be my first day 
> at work -- where the test machine is located.)
> 
> Sorry I can't be quicker about this.  Life keeps getting in the way!

Ok, no problem.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

[Ralph Seichter]

Herbert Kaminski wrote:
> Just this weekend, I installed with no difficulties the then current
> version of 'initrd.gz' and 'linux' from joeyh's location.
Thanks, Herbert, it is working now. Well, sort of. ;-) I downloaded
joeyh's files and tried to install Sarge in two scenarios:
a) Using a regional mirror: the installation process loads files
(and kernel modules for hardware support, I guess), recognizes the
hard disk and allows partitioning.
b) Using Apache to serve .
I copied Sarge CD 1 to this local directory. The installation
process loads some files, but does not find a hard disk.
Obviously, there is a difference between either the files available
in these two scenarios or between the process of loading the files.
Maybe joeyh's files require "real" Debian mirrors, not just local
copies of the installation CDs. BTW, I verified the CD by installing
the laptop using the DVD ROM drive, no problems there. For better
performance, I'd like to use the Sarge CDs I have already created,
instead of downloading everything from external mirrors.
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Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

[Ralph Seichter]

Joey Hess wrote:
> That tarall has a 2.4.26 kernel in it, and so the installer is unale
> to download disk drivers.
I used the files in the debian-installer/2.6 subdirectory, because I
supposed a 2.6 kernel there?
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translators

[genewolf]

Hi There
You sent out a request for "african language" translators...
Does "Afrikaans" count as an African Language? :D
Or did you just mean Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, etc?

No I am not on the list...


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Re: translators

[Wouter Verhelst]

Op di, 16-11-2004 te 13:30 +0200, schreef genewolf:
> Hi There
> You sent out a request for "african language" translators...
> Does "Afrikaans" count as an African Language? :D
> Or did you just mean Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, etc?

That's up to you to decide ;-)

In any case, we can always use extra translators. If you are fluent in
Afrikaans, and have some available time to offer on a fully-voluntary
basis, you can just go ahead and translate. The only thing you will need
to know is the ISO code for afrikaans, which is af; so any .po files you
create will have to be called 'af.po'.

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Re: bootsplash option for d-i?

[Xan]

Dilluns 15 Novembre 2004 17:19, en/na Colin Watson (>) va escriure:
>>Re: bootsplash option for d-i?
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:45:42PM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:47:02PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Notice that the debian-kernel team has refused the bootsplash patch in
> > > its current implementation, so there will be no bootsplash kernel in
> > > debian anytime soon, and this is at best a post-sarge discussion.
> >
> > I fully understand the reasoning behind the kernel team's rejection of
> > this patch, but it is kinda sad nonetheless... I marvelled at how
> > someone's Fedora install booted up the other day, and was similiarly
> > impressed with the Ubuntu Live CD.
>
> Since we're mentioning Ubuntu, the reason we rejected the bootsplash
> patch for the Ubuntu kernel was that including it broke the part of the
> installer that starts up the framebuffer in a way that we concluded was
> impossible to repair within the design of bootsplash.

Now I know that it's because bootsplash is not good as we want.
Thanks a lot (to two)

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To install over ich6r raid

[johon Doe]

Hi all, I have some problems to install sarge over a
ich6r raid controller, simply the boot cd doesn't see
the array, but it sees the ich6r controller.
Those are my hardware:
mobo asus p5gd1 (ich6r sata raid controller)
hard disk Maxtor MaxLine3
P IV 3000 GhZ
1 GB ram

the sarge cd is the cd1 downloaded with jigdo,
yesterday.

How can I solve ?
Thx very much.



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preseed file no tasks

[underdog10]

Hello,

When read the installation manual about Automatic Installation, you can see in 
the Preconfiguration File Example those lines.

" You can choose to install any combination of tasks that are available. 
Available tasks as of this writing include: Desktop environment, Web server, 
Print server, DNS server, File server, Mail server, SQL database, manual 
package selection. The last of those will run aptitude. You can also choose to 
install no tasks, and force the installation of a set of packages in some other 
way."

I could not find a way to install no tasks.
Can anyone tell me how i can do it.
I don't want aptitude to be launch.

Thanks.
Underdog

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Re: Bug#279491: No disk detected on an IBM RS6000 7043-260 (sym53c8xx driver)

[Alessandro Amici]

Jens,

On Monday 08 November 2004 15:53, Alessandro Amici wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 16:36, Alessandro Amici wrote:
> > > > [...] it looks like an irq problem, the fact that the d-i uses a
> > > > 32bit kernel on a 64bit can well be to be the trigger,
> > >
> > > A similar problem was fixed for PReP systems a while ago.  Before
> > > that, I worked around it by setting CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_IOMAPPED.
>
> i recompiled a 2.6.8 power3 kernel with CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_IOMAPPED=y
> and managed to load the modified sym53c8xx driver, without any change
> whatsoever to the (buggy) behavior :(

i managed to install sarge on the system and i could do a more fine grained 
research.

i can now boot fine the machine with kernel-image-2.6.8-power3-smp version 
2.6.8-6. if i use kernel-image-2.6.8-power3 version 2.6.8-6 i get problem 
with the symbios controller. i attached the full log of the UP kernel and a 
piece of the log of the working SMP kernel. 

> since i had the chance to go on a bit with the hardware detection process
> before loading the SCSI driver, i noticed that the IDE interface fails
> claiming irq problems, as well.

this happens with both kernels and it is apparently unrelated.

cheers,
alessandro


--- full log for power3 ---

Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot: Linux
Please wait, loading kernel...
   Elf32 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 0180, size: 4712 Kbytes
instantiating rtas at 0060 ... done
opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ok
copying OF device tree...done
starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initializing fake screen: display
Calling quiesce ...
returning 0x0140 from prom_init
Total memory = 1024MB; using 4096kB for hash table (at c080)
Linux version 2.6.8-power3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 
1:3.3.4-11)) #1 Sun Oct 3 11
:51:18 CEST 2004
PCI bus 0 controlled by pci at fef0
PCI bus 64 controlled by pci at fee0
RTAS Event Scan Rate: 1 (2 jiffies)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro ramdisk_size=8192
OpenPIC at ffc0 (size 1)
OpenPIC irqs 0..15 in ISU at feff7c00 (200)
OpenPIC irqs 16..31 in ISU at feef7c00 (200)
OpenPIC Version 1.2 (8 CPUs and 32 IRQ sources) at fbefc000
OpenPIC timer frequency is 33.554432 MHz
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
time_init: decrementer frequency = 100.007291 MHz
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1026432k available (1708k kernel code, 1116k data, 160k init, 262144k 
highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 398.33 BogoMIPS
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an 
initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4712k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
matroxfb: Matrox MGA-G200 (PCI) detected
matroxfb: BIOS on your Matrox device does not contain powerup info
matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x3276)
matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xC000, mapped to 0xf1005000, size 2097152
fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
fb0: initializing hardware
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1100632988.191:0): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation
Warning: no ADB interface detected
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4712 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 160k init 56k pmac 32k prep
initrd-tools: 0.1.74
NET: Registered protocol family 1
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Enabling device :00:0c.0 (0140 -> 0143)
sym0: <875> rev 0x4 at pci :00:0c.0 irq 17
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
scsi0 : sym-2.1.18j
Using anticipatory io scheduler
sym0:0:0: ABORT operation started.
sym0:0:0: ABORT operation complete.
sym0:0:0: ABORT operation started.
sym0:0:0: ABORT operation complete.
sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation st

Bug#281530: [s390] Installation successful, some issues

[Frans Pop]

Package: installation-reports

I saw an offer for an s390 on ebay, bought it and set it up in my
hobby room. Uhm, scratch that.
I downloaded hercules 3.01 [1], compiled and installed it without any
problems on my Toshiba i386 laptop, and had a beautiful s390 emulator
(lots of kudos to the developers!).

[1] I got the upstream version as the current version in Debian does
not run on 2.6 kernels (#241064)

As I don't know anything about s390, I did a really basic setup and install.
Main goal was to test some changes in network-console and prebaseconfig
related to remote installation over SSH (#279090 and #279213).

INSTALLATION REPORT
===

Debian-installer-version: 
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-s390/20041027/images/generic/
(this is the most current version available)
uname -a: Linux (none) 2.4.27-1-s390 #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 12:18:33 CEST 2004 s390 
unknown
Date: Sunday Nov 15 (most of the evening)
Method: ipl'ed generic d-i image; set up networking;
set up network-console; continued installation over SSH

Machine: hercules s390 emulator on i386/Sarge/2.6.8 machine
Processor:
# cat cpuinfo
vendor_id   : IBM/S390
# processors: 2
bogomips per cpu: 130.66
processor 0: version = FD,  identification = 002623,  machine = 3090
processor 1: version = FD,  identification = 102623,  machine = 3090
(Only one processor during installation; second was added afterwards)

Memory: MemTotal:61360 kB

Root Device: dasd created with 'dasdinit dasd0 3390-1 root 1114'
Root Size/partition table:
Disk /dev/dasda:
1113 cylinders,
  15 tracks per cylinder,
  12 blocks per track
4096 bytes  per block
volume label: VOL1, volume identifier: LX0120
maximum partition number: 3
 --- tracks ---
   Device  start  end   length   Id  System
  /dev/dasda1  216000159991  Linux native
  /dev/dasda2  1600116694  6942  Linux swap

# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/dasda1/   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro  0 1
/dev/dasda2noneswapsw  0 0
/dev/floppy/0  /floppy autorw,user,noauto  0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /cdrom  autoro,user,noauto  0 0
proc   /proc   procdefaults0 0

# mount
/dev/dasda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [-]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]

Comments/Problems:
1) Locale not set up properly
It looks like languagechooser, countrychooser and kbd-chooser are not
run at all (as they are not included in the initrd).
It also looks like no proper defaults for language, country and locale are
set. This causes several problems:
- /etc/environment is set up with LANG="" and LANGUAGE=""
  It would be better if LANG was set to "C" and LANGUAGE maybe not set at all.
  /etc/environment seems to be created in languagechooser's prebaseconfig.
  (/me files a separate bugreport against languagechooser)
- The countrylist for mirror-chooser is shown as country codes and not
  country names.

I'm not sure what the best place to set general defaults would be.

2) languagechooser does not handles LANG="" correctly
During package installation in tasksel, locales was installed.
During the preconfig of locales, the top of the list of locales to choose from
showed: [*] Usage: /usr/sbin/validlocale 
It appears this line was added to /etc/localegen by languagechooser's
prebaseconfig, by calling 'validlocale $LANG' instead of 'validlocale "$LANG"'.
(Note that I understand that an empty LANG should be treated the same as 
LANG="C".)

(/me files a separate bugreport against languagechooser for this issue)

3) Selected unstable in 1st stage, but testing was selected in 2nd stage
During apt-config I selected http and the same mirror as in 1st stage.
After that tasksel broke down because of dependency problems. Investigation
showed that a source line for testing had been added in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Not sure where this problem comes from.

4) network-console: SSH session aborts when changing window size on client
Separate bug report filed. See #281435.

All in all the installation was successful (and a lot of fun).


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apt-get,d-i and small hard disks

[sferriol]

hello
i have a problem using apt under small disk, on a PC under debian and 
another during debian installation (pre-rc2).
On the first PC, i do a 'apt-get upgrade' but there is no place to 
download packages and after configure them. i finally succeed by 
selecting package one by one 'apt-get install package; apt-get clean'
why apt-get can not do that automatically when there is no enough free 
disk space ?

It's the same under debian installer, it do not verify if there is 
enough  space on disk before installing packages, i succeed to install 
by executing 'apt-get clean; apt-get upgrade' in a shell

thanks
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Re: To install over ich6r raid

[Frans Pop]

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On Tuesday 16 November 2004 13:29, johon Doe wrote:
> Hi all, I have some problems to install sarge over a
> ich6r raid controller, simply the boot cd doesn't see
> the array, but it sees the ich6r controller.

This is fairly recent hardware. Control for some new ICH controllers has 
been added recently, but I'm not sure if your controller is among that.

Please try the netinst CD image from [1].
If that does not work, then file an installation report [2] and make sure 
that you add the output of 'lspci' and 'lspci -n'.

You could try using knoppix to get the lspci information.

[1] http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/
[2] http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template

Cheers,
FJP
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Bug#281538: languagechooser: [s390] Invalid setup of localization

[Frans Pop]

Package: languagechooser
Version: 1.42

During an s390 installation (see #281530), languagechooser and 
countrychooser are not run as they are not on the initrd.
However, they are loaded later in the process and languagechooser's 
prebaseconfig _is_ run at the end of 1st stage installation.

This probably means that some debconf values and environment variables 
which languagechooser expects to be set, are not set.
The prebaseconfig does not handle this situation correctly.

The syslog for the install showed:
info: Running /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/05languagechooser
warning: /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/05languagechooser returned error code 1

First problem
=
/etc/environment is set up with LANG="" and LANGUAGE=""

IMHO it would be better if LANG was set to "C" and LANGUAGE maybe not set 
at all.

Second problem
==
/etc/localegen is set up with 'Usage: /usr/sbin/validlocale '

During package installation in tasksel, locales was installed.
During the preconfig of locales, the top of the list of locales to choose 
from showed: [*] Usage: /usr/sbin/validlocale 

It appears this line was added to /etc/localegen during prebaseconfig, by 
calling 'validlocale $LANG' instead of 'validlocale "$LANG"' (and by not 
checking the return code of validlocale).

Note that this problem would disappear if LANG were set to C.
However, a check for the return code should be added anyway.


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Bug#281556: s390 installation report, installed system does not boot

[Eugeniy Meshcheryakov]

Package: installation-reports

INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/
installer-s390/20041027/images/generic/  
uname -a: Linux debian 2.4.27-1-s390 #1 SMP Tue Aug 17 12:18:33 CEST 2004 s390 
GNU/Linux
Date: 2004.11.15-2004.11.16
Method: ipl from tape, used ssh after

Machine: hercules, version 2.17.1-2 
Processor:
Memory:
Root Device: 
Root Size/partition table:  Feel free to paste the full partition
  table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E/-]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [E]

Comments/Problems:
 I was not able to format dasd using d-i (known problem, should be fixed now), 
so
I formated dasd manually and formated it with cfdisk. After successfull firts 
stage
I rebooted hercules but I was not able to boot using zipl defaul setup. Linux 
was
not able to find root partition (zipl.conf attached).
 After using google.com I found that I need to pass dasd=0120 to zipl in order
to boot. That worked. It is posible that dasd parameter is missing because I
did not use d-i for formating dasd and partitioning.
 
 
[defaultboot]
defaultmenu = menu

:menu
target = /boot
1 = debian
2 = old
default = 1
prompt = 1
timeout = 10

[debian]
target = /boot
image = /boot/vmlinuz
parameters = ro vmpoff="LOGOFF" root=/dev/dasda1

[old]
target = /boot
image = /boot/vmlinuz.old
parameters = ro vmpoff="LOGOFF" root=/dev/dasda1
optional = 1

Bug#281556: s390 installation report, installed system does not boot

[Adam Thornton]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
After using google.com I found that I need to pass dasd=0120 to zipl 
in order
to boot. That worked. It is posible that dasd parameter is missing 
because I
did not use d-i for formating dasd and partitioning.
I believe this is the case.
A workaround to 281407 (the formatting loop) problem exists, too, if 
you don't have the fixed version: define more than one DASD device.  
The loop only appears if you have exactly one disk.

Adam

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Re: translators

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting genewolf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi There
> You sent out a request for "african language" translators...
> Does "Afrikaans" count as an African Language? :D
> Or did you just mean Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, etc?

Afrikaans is without any doubt an african language..:-)

Anyway, what we're currently and indeed always are seeking, are
translators for all languages we don't support yet..this includes
Klingon as well(though I suspect an Afrikaans translation to be far
more useful than a Klingon one).

So, if you're interested in participating to Debian Installer
localisation effort to Afrikaans, then you ringed the correct door.

More precisely speaking, I am, together with Dennis Stampfer
([EMAIL PROTECTED]), the one you need to speak with in order to begin
this effort.

The general documentation about d-i localisation may be found at:

http://svn.debian.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/d-i/trunk/installer/doc/i18n/i18n.html

Be aware that the currently prepared release of d-i will not include
more languages than currently supported, mostly because we need to
freeze the size of packages.

However, new languages are highly welcome and will be included in
future releases (we're still hoping that the d-i release cycle will be
faster the general Debian release cycle). These new languages are
called "prospective languages" in our internal jargon. A few languages
are currently in that list (Malagasy, Macedonian, Vietnamese) and
we could be very happy to add Afrikaans to the list.

I've been in contact with the translate-devel people where
South-African translators are very active. Maybe you got aware of this
"call for african translations" through them...or maybe through
another channel. In any case, feel free to jump in to the boat and
just keep in touch and ask any question you want to ask...

And if you're in touch with potentiel Zulu, Xhosa and the other 8
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Debian-Installer report-template

[Christian Mack]

Hi d-www folks
Debian installation reports are a good way to get user feedback for d-boot.
At the moment the user either has to use the template on his debian maschine,
or to type in the whole report by hand into his email client.
In case of an unsuccessful installation, the first choice often isn't
possible.
Because of that I thougt about providing a better debian-installer
report-template webpage:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template.en.html
Is it possible to make this page a form which sends the corresponding email
behind the scenes?
Or could we at least provide an enhanced mailto: Link under
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something like this (in one href line :-):
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]][][]&body=Package:%20installation-reports%0D%0A%0D%0A
Debian-installer-version:%0D%0Auname%20-a:%0D%0ADate:%0D%0AMethod:%0D%0A
%0D%0AMachine:%0D%0AProcessor:%0D%0AMemory:%0D%0ARoot%20Device:%0D%0ARoot%20
Size/partition%20table:%0D%0A%0D%0AOutput%20of%20lspci%20and%20lspci%20-n:
%0D%0A%0D%0ABase%20System%20Installation%20Checklist:%0D%0A[O]%20=%20OK,%20[E]
%20=%20Error%20(please%20elaborate%20below),%20[%20]%20=%20didn't%20try%20it
%0D%0A%0D%0AInitial%20boot%20worked:%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0AConfigure%20network
%20HW:%20%20%20[]%0D%0AConfig%20network:%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0A
Detect%20CD:%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0ALoad%20installer
%20modules:%20[]%0D%0ADetect%20hard%20drives:%20%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0APartition
%20hard%20drives:%20%20[]%0D%0ACreate%20file%20systems:%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0A
Mount%20partitions:%20%20%20%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0AInstall%20base%20system:%20%20
%20%20[]%0D%0AInstall%20boot%20loader:%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0AReboot:%20%20%20%20
%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20[]%0D%0A%0D%0AComments/Problems:"
I know this syntax isn't supportet by all browsers, but for those who can use
this, it will definitely be a help on providing installation reports.
bye
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Bug#281569: de4x5 doesn't work on ia64 system

[Alex Williamson]

Package: discover1-data
Version: 1.2004.11.09
Severity: Normal

Bug #267302 switched the default for "DECchip 21142/43" from tulip to
de4x5.  Unfortunately, this breaks my system which only works with the
tulip.  Device in question:

# lspci -vvv -s 00:01.0
0001:00:01.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 
21142/43 (rev 41)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 104f
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
SERR- TAbort- 
SERR- 

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Re: preseed file no tasks

[Joey Hess]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When read the installation manual about Automatic Installation, you can see 
> in the Preconfiguration File Example those lines.
> 
> " You can choose to install any combination of tasks that are available. 
> Available tasks as of this writing include: Desktop environment, Web server, 
> Print server, DNS server, File server, Mail server, SQL database, manual 
> package selection. The last of those will run aptitude. You can also choose 
> to install no tasks, and force the installation of a set of packages in some 
> other way."
> 
> I could not find a way to install no tasks.
> Can anyone tell me how i can do it.
> I don't want aptitude to be launch.

This is currently not possible to do with preseeding. Well, not cleanly.
A choice will be added to the menu for this feature after sarge is
released.

For now, if you really have to do it:

# Remove menu item to avoid tasksel run. Note that this is dependent on
# base-config internals; base-config runs in /tmp/somedir/ and the menu
# subdirectory from there contains the menu base-config is using for the
# current run.
base-config base-config/early_command string rm -f menu/pkgsel.mnu

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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: Debian 3.0r2 +r1 (cd non-us 1)
uname -a: Cannot install
Date: 15th/16th November 2004
Method: 

no

Machine:  DAC960

Root Size/partition table: 

cannot get this far, initial boot fails.

Output of lspci and lspci -n:

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] =3D OK, [E] =3D Error (please elaborate below), [ ] =3D didn't try =
it

Initial boot worked:[E]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:[ ]
Mount partitions:   [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]

Comments/Problems:

Attempting to install Debian on a Alpha DS10.

Problems with initial detect of DAC960 controller

Initial boot with boot dqa0 -flags 0 leads to a,

"Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address =
0010
swapper(1): Oops 0
pc =3D [] ra =3D [] ps =3D 

etc

etc

If I remove the controller, the install proceeds OK.

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On Tuesday 16 November 2004 03:12, Steven Jones wrote:
> Debian-installer-version: Debian 3.0r2 +r1 (cd non-us 1)
> 
> Attempting to install Debian on a Alpha DS10.
>
> Problems with initial detect of DAC960 controller
>
> Initial boot with boot dqa0 -flags 0 leads to a,
> "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
> 0010 swapper(1): Oops 0
> pc = [] ra = [] ps = 

It looks like you are trying to install Deb

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Processing of s390-dasd_0.0.10_s390.changes

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Bug#281469: Debian Alpha Installation report DAC960 ~ DS10

[Joey Hess]

reassign 281469 kernel
thanks

Steven Jones wrote:
> Attempting to install Debian on a Alpha DS10.
> 
> Problems with initial detect of DAC960 controller
> 
> Initial boot with boot dqa0 -flags 0 leads to a,
> 
> "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0010
> swapper(1): Oops 0
> pc = [] ra = [] ps = 
> 
> etc
> 
> etc
> 
> If I remove the controller, the install proceeds OK.

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lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]

[Xan]

> > Since we're mentioning Ubuntu, the reason we rejected the bootsplash
> > patch for the Ubuntu kernel was that including it broke the part of the
> > installer that starts up the framebuffer in a way that we concluded was
> > impossible to repair within the design of bootsplash.

And what's about lilo/grub background image?. Is that an option in d-i?
Perhaps an interesting thing: if we could not have the bootsplash, we could 
have lilo/grub graphical display.

Thanks,
Xan.


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Bug#281530: [s390] Installation successful, some issues

[Frans Pop]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 15:26, Frans Pop wrote:
> Partition hard drives:  [E]

Uhm.
Forgot to explain this error. See #281407 (dasd formating loops).
And, it should be fixed already by joeyh :-)


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Bug#281590: tasksel: Should not clear cache if installation failed

[Frans Pop]

Package: tasksel
Version: 2.15
Severity: minor

Currently the cache is always deleted as soon as aptitude finishes package 
installation.
This is very not nice if the installation fails for some reason (or is 
cancelled by the user) as packages will have very likely have to be 
downloaded again, and again, ...

I suggest that the cache only be cleaned if there were no errors during 
the installation.


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Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]

[Andrew Pollock]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:06:25PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> > > Since we're mentioning Ubuntu, the reason we rejected the bootsplash
> > > patch for the Ubuntu kernel was that including it broke the part of the
> > > installer that starts up the framebuffer in a way that we concluded was
> > > impossible to repair within the design of bootsplash.
> 
> And what's about lilo/grub background image?. Is that an option in d-i?
> Perhaps an interesting thing: if we could not have the bootsplash, we could 
> have lilo/grub graphical display.

I believe that boils down to the grub and lilo packages providing one, and
there being a consensus on what the image should be...

I have also heard that in certain combinations of hardware, kicking into the
video mode required to display the graphic causes issues, so in the
interests of reliability, it has been left alone.

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Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]

[Xan]

Dimarts 16 Novembre 2004 21:29, en/na Andrew Pollock (>) va escriure:
>>Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:06:25PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> > > > Since we're mentioning Ubuntu, the reason we rejected the bootsplash
> > > > patch for the Ubuntu kernel was that including it broke the part of
> > > > the installer that starts up the framebuffer in a way that we
> > > > concluded was impossible to repair within the design of bootsplash.
> >
> > And what's about lilo/grub background image?. Is that an option in d-i?
> > Perhaps an interesting thing: if we could not have the bootsplash, we
> > could have lilo/grub graphical display.
>
> I believe that boils down to the grub and lilo packages providing one, and
> there being a consensus on what the image should be...
>
> I have also heard that in certain combinations of hardware, kicking into
> the video mode required to display the graphic causes issues, so in the
> interests of reliability, it has been left alone.
>
> regards

Okay. Thanks. I see that debian seems "less-graphical" than another distro 
veyr long time :)

Regards,
Xan.
>
> Andrew


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Bug#281590: tasksel: Should not clear cache if installation failed

[Joey Hess]

Frans Pop wrote:
> Currently the cache is always deleted as soon as aptitude finishes package 
> installation.
> This is very not nice if the installation fails for some reason (or is 
> cancelled by the user) as packages will have very likely have to be 
> downloaded again, and again, ...
> 
> I suggest that the cache only be cleaned if there were no errors during 
> the installation.

The only cache cleaning that I know of is in base-config:

if which tasksel >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ "$1" = new ]; then
tasksel_param="--new-install"
fi
if ! tasksel -ris $tasksel_param; then
$0 failure
exit 1
fi
fi

if [ "$KEEP_BASE_DEBS" != yes ]; then
apt-get -f clean || true
fi

I don't see how this could cause the cache to be cleaned if the tasksel
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Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

[Herbert Kaminski]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:44:36 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote:

b) Using Apache to serve .
>I copied Sarge CD 1 to this local directory. 
  ^^
Where did you get this from? As far as I know, there is no official
Sarge CD set.

>Obviously, there is a difference between either the files available
>in these two scenarios or between the process of loading the files.
>Maybe joeyh's files require "real" Debian mirrors, 

I asssume they need a _current_ mirror. As D-I changes daily, I think
it is not a good idea to use a presumably outdated inofficial snapshot.

BTW to speed up the install and save download volume and mirror load,
I use Wwwoffle as caching proxy (Squid would be eaqally effective).
This is guaranteed to be up to date.

Regards,
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Advice on making a Debian Installer

[naim abu darwish]

hello,
I need some advice on customising my own D-I (debian installer).
I saw business card iso image debian installer(50 mb)
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (please advice if you
find anything else), and i thought of adding to that some packages.

Then modify the installer in a such way to install the new packages,
and answer questions as few as possible to get a system installed as
fast as possible. This, ofcourse, means having some of apt's questions
pre-answered.

Also, i need to add support for non-standard hardware (drivers not
included in the pristine kernel sources),that , i think means changing
the kernel image included in the installer.

This new installer will be very handy in situations where many
machines need to be installed having a nearly identical configuration
and package list.

-Greets
Naim


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Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Xan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Okay. Thanks. I see that debian seems "less-graphical" than another distro 
> veyr long time :)

Just count how many architectures these another distros support...:-)


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Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

[Ralph Seichter]

Herbert Kaminski wrote:
> Where did you get this from? As far as I know, there is no official
> Sarge CD set.
Are you certain about this? I used the jigdo files found at

as a starting point and downloaded Sarge CDs 1 to 3 from the server
ftp.uni-koeln.de on 2004-11-06. It is listed as a secondary mirror
on , so it seemed "official" to
me...
> I asssume they need a _current_ mirror. As D-I changes daily, I
> think it is not a good idea to use a presumably outdated inofficial
> snapshot.
Well, which mirror would you recommend? Are the secondary mirrors
any good in this particular scenario?
> BTW to speed up the install and save download volume and mirror
> load, I use Wwwoffle as caching proxy (Squid would be eaqally
> effective).
Thanks, I'm using Squid as a proxy already. I wanted to make use of
the CDs I created, but if downloading fresh files from a mirror is a
requirement, I will go for it.
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Re: lilo/grub image background? [was Re: bootsplash option for d-i?]

[Andrew Pollock]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:09:09PM +0100, Xan wrote:
> 
> Okay. Thanks. I see that debian seems "less-graphical" than another distro 
> veyr long time :)
> 

Yeah, it's that whole lowest-common-denominator-across-11-architectures
thing...

regards

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Bug#281645: installation-reports: OOo installation failed

[Kenshi Muto]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Debian-installer-version: 2004-11-15 sid netinst.iso
Date: 2004-11-15
Method: linux26, booted from CD

Machine: AMD64, 1GB memory, 130GB P-ATA HDD, RTL8169 NIC, IEEE1394,
GeForceFX5200 SVGA.

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:[O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]

Comments/Problems:
I chose Japanese as language.

1st stage installation with 32bit mode is really smooth.
2nd stage installation is smooth also (discover and hotplug succeed to
detect all of my hardware).

Unfortunatelly, when I chose 'Desktop' on tasksel, a trouble happened.
Package installation was incomplete, and error message from base-config
dialog was shown.

It was too early to dismiss aptitude install screen, I couldn't find
what's happen at first. Then I found a log in
/var/log/base-config.log.

The problem is caused by OpenOffice.org dependency problem:
--
Get:699 http://ftp.jp.debian.org testing/main openoffice.org-bin 1.1.2dfsg1-1
Get:700 http://ftp.jp.debian.org testing/main openoffice.org-debian-files 
1.1.2-5+1
Get:703 http://ftp.jp.debian.org testing/main openoffice.org 1.1.2dfsg1-1

Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-bin.
Unpacking openoffice.org-bin.
Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-l10n-en.
Unpacking openoffice.org-l10n-en.
Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org.
Unpacking openoffice.org.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-debian-files:
 openoffice.org-debian-files depends on: openoffice.org (>> 1.1.1+1.1.2rc3) 
however:
  Package openoffice.org is not configured yet.
 openoffice.org-debian-files depends on: openoffice.org-bin (>> 1.1.1+1.1.2rc3) 
however:
  Package openoffice.org-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-debian-files (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-l10n-en:
 openoffice.org-l10n-en depends on: openoffice.org (>> 1.1.1+1.1.2) however:
  Package openoffice.org is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-l10n-en (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing:
 openoffice.org-debian-files
 openoffice.org-l10n-en
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Hmm, I remember joeyh removed openoffice from desktop selection, but
tasksel/tasks/desktop in svn remains:
# openoffice is the best word processor / office suite at the moment
  openoffice.org-bin

Another topic:
- GeForce FX5200 won't run with XFree86 4.3.0 nv driver.
  It works with nvidia-kernel-source kernel module + nvidia-glx.
- This is a matter of course, when you install 2.6.8-9-amd64 64 bit
  native kernel, you should install more library for 64-bit
  environments (I had a experience... nvidia-kernel-source compile
  problem :-) ).

Thanks,
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Kenshi Muto
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Bug#281641: installation-reports

[Mehul N. Sanghvi]

Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso  2004-11-15
uname -a:
Date: 2004-11-17 00:55:18 GMT
Method:  Installed via ISO image downloaded from
 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20041116/
 and also from
 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20041116/
Machine: Sun Ultra 2 UPA/SBus Creator
Processor:  UltraSPARC 200MHz
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: SCSI sd0 or sd1 as I have two drives in here.
Root Size/partition table: Never made it to this stage.
Output of lspci and lspci -n:  Never made it to this stage.
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked:[E]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:[ ]
Mount partitions:   [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Reboot: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
ok   boot cdrom
SILO 1.4.8
boot: 
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.4.27
Loading initial ramdisk (2895610 bytes at 0x1F408000 phys, 0x40C0 
virt)...
|
Remapping the kernel... FP Disabled


The above has happened to me almost every single time that I have tried
to install Debian on this machine.  There was a few times, that I did
get Debian to install, but messed up things with the Logical Volume
Manager, and so had to try and re-install and the very disk that worked
would not work again.  I can get NetBSD on it, but I want my apt-get
and my aptitude :)
The phys and virt address above are different from the times when I was
able to get it installed.  I can not recall for the life of me
what they were, but I am 100% sure that the phys address was different.
Not so certain about the virt address.
I have gone through about 13-15 CDs of both the 'netinst' and the
'businesscard' ISO images since near the end of September when I
scrounged the Ultra 2 from a Lab at work to use as my day to day
system.  It is now running NetBSD as I do need something to
run on the box so I can do my work.
What's frustrating is that CDs that worked at one point are not
working the next day !!  Its not a memory issue because I am able
to get Solaris and NetBSD to both work on this system without
any problems.

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Bug#281667: Debian-Installer report

[Agon S. Buchholz]

Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/20041115/sarge-i386-netinst.iso

uname -a: Linux gw 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:18:43 EST 2004 i586 
GNU/Linux

Date: 16-Nov-2004
Method: Installation from boot cd-rom, booting from Lit-on LTN-202 (IDE)
Machine: Homebred; Mainboard Asus P55T2P4 Rev. 3.10
Processor: Pentium MMX (BIOS around 1997)
Memory: 94.760k total
Root Device: IDE; IBM/Hitachi 80 GB
Root Size/partition table:
/dev/hda1   /boot   ext3defaults0   2
/dev/hda2   /   ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0   1
/dev/hda3   noneswapsw  0   0
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
gw:~# lspci
:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430HX - 82439HX TXC [Triton II] 
(rev 03)
:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton 
II] (rev 01)
:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 USB 
[Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01)
:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX 
[Cyclone] (rev 30)
:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M 
[Tornado] (rev 74)
:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
:00:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG 
[Mystique] (rev 03)

gw:~# lspci -n
:00:00.0 0600: 8086:1250 (rev 03)
:00:07.0 0601: 8086:7000 (rev 01)
:00:07.1 0101: 8086:7010
:00:07.2 0c03: 8086:7020 (rev 01)
:00:09.0 0200: 10b7:9055 (rev 30)
:00:0a.0 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 74)
:00:0b.0 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01)
:00:0c.0 0300: 102b:051a (rev 03)
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked:[E]
Configure network HW:   [O/E]
Config network: [O/E]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:[O]
Mount partitions:   [O]
Install base system:[O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
First installation: partitioned using setting for beginners (everything 
on one partition), booting unsuccessful (GRUB error 18); in second 
attempt (mode: "expert26"), partitioned manually as mentioned above with 
small boot partition /boot, booting now fine.

There are currently three NICs in the PC (2x Ethernet, 1x WLAN; didn't 
know if active ISDN cards like AVM B1 are supported so didn't try it).

D-i recognizes both Ethernet NICs as "3Com 3c905B", even if one is "3Com 
3c905C"; might be the same driver but is irritating. eth0 is working as 
expected.

WLAN NIC Netgear WG311 (Atheros chipset) is not "installed" or handled 
by d-i in any way, but lspci recognizes the PCI card. Might work with 
MADwifi drivers which seem not to be part of sarge at all. Getting it to 
work with Debian could take some time, most users won't know how to do 
it. It is supposed to work in Fedora Core 2 and Mandrake 9.1.

Other thoughts during installation:
- The messages at several stages of the install, that some drivers are 
not available at the moment, are irritating; thought first something 
went wrong.
- Missed an option for a basic firewall configuration.
- d-i told me several times during installation that the computer might 
support PCMCIA; kind of highly irritating because it's a desktop system 
wighout any PC-Card slots. Might be caused by the Netgear WLAN card or 
just a strange error.
- The partitioning tool ist quite nice; however, it should not suggest 
partitionings which don't work (1024 limit).
- The setting of the timezone could be easier; it's painless, if you 
have a Windows PC where you can look it up, but most users don't care 
too much about their timezone relative to GMT; so maybe a simple list 
("your hardware clock is... GMT time is... if you are in..." or 
something like this).
- The text mode interface for d-i is fine for me, there's IMHO no need 
for a graphical installer.
- d-i could offer some advice for configuring the computer for certain 
tasks (router, file server, desktop workstation etc.) or at least point 
to the task system. But a user which doesn't finds out quickly about it 
will surely fail with Debian anyway.

Greetings, -asb

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Re: To install over ich6r raid

[Mats Näsström]

When you come to the step to partition your hd I'm gessing you something 
like 'no availible drives' and the screen goes red in the backgound, right?

The new ICH6 chip is very new but it is supported by the ata_piix module 
through libata. So just modprobe ata_piix to enable d-i to detect your 
HD. But make sure your installing in a kernel 2.6.x install cause its 
the only one that has the libata and ata_piix with it.

In simple steps this is what you should do:
When booting from the install cd you enter either 'linux26' or 
'expert26'. Then go through the install until you fail to detect your 
hard drive and then press ALT+F2 to switch the other console and press 
enter to activate it. Here you just type 'modprobe ata_piix' and it 
should produce no messages and then leave you at another prompt. After 
this you just switch back to d-i with ALT+F1 and redo the 'Detect 
hardware' step which should be one step above the partition hard drive 
step. And then you should be able to detect your hard drive during the 
rest of the installation. =)

All this I wrote down from memmory so if all the terms and labels are 
correct I blame my brain. Oh and by the way, I'm sorry if I seem to 
treat you like a newbie by writing this detailed how-to but its not your 
fault, I just felt like writing it so no offense. ;)

Cheers
- Mats
johon Doe wrote:
Hi all, I have some problems to install sarge over a
ich6r raid controller, simply the boot cd doesn't see
the array, but it sees the ich6r controller.
Those are my hardware:
mobo asus p5gd1 (ich6r sata raid controller)
hard disk Maxtor MaxLine3
P IV 3000 GhZ
1 GB ram
the sarge cd is the cd1 downloaded with jigdo,
yesterday.
How can I solve ?
Thx very much.

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[MANUAL] Re: Bug#281461: installation-reports - PPPoE Problem

[Christian Perrier]

The user below suggest a minor change to the manual. However what he
describes is that pppoeconf fails when an existing eth0 interface is
not up. I tend to think this is a pppoeconf bug, do you agree?

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From: Jeremy Wisbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:14:07 +1100
Subject: Re: Bug#281461: installation-reports - PPPoE Problem



Hi Christian

Perhaps I ticked the wrong box.

The second half of the install, which runs after the first reboot, was NOT
successful because no connection to the Internet could be established, and then
none of the APT stuff could run, because no connection could be made to a Debian
mirror.

The installation manual says, if you have PPPOE, you need to switch to VT2 and
run pppoeconf. That's when I get the message about no concentrator being found.

Last night I successfully got through this by typing:

ifconfig eth0 up

before running pppoeconf.

If this is generally required to do a successful installation over PPPOE could
it please be included in the installation manual for us inexperienced Linux
users.

Thanks
Jeremy





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> Comments/Problems:
>
> Can't get the rest of Debian through apt because can't connect to Internet
> (PPPOE). When I switched to vt2 and run pppoeconf it finds ETH0 but when it
goes
> to detect a concentrator it instantly comes back and says none can be found.

Given that this install report is a complete success report, I do as
usual with successful install report

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 : I close the bug..:-)

This does not of course mean you weren't right to report. Knowing the
installations are correct is important for the d-i team.

Many thanks for yourtime testing the Debian Installer and reporting
your results. Have fun with your new Debian system!

PS : the pppoeconf problem is outside Debian Installer scope. I suggest
you report it separately against the pppoeconf package with as much
details as possible.





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Re: Bug#281645: installation-reports: OOo installation failed

[Christian Perrier]

> Hmm, I remember joeyh removed openoffice from desktop selection, but
> tasksel/tasks/desktop in svn remains:

Uh? I missed that. I don't really understand why it has been removed
as I cannot imagine a desktop workstation without OO...:-)



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Bug#281667: Debian-Installer report

[Christian Perrier]

> Other thoughts during installation:
> 
> - The messages at several stages of the install, that some drivers are 
> not available at the moment, are irritating; thought first something 
> went wrong.

You were in expert modeyou got the information you implicitely
asked for..:-)

> - Missed an option for a basic firewall configuration.

I'm not sure whether it should be turned into a wishlist bug against
netcfg. Anyway, this is for sure post-sarge

netcfg people, do you think something could be done?

> - d-i told me several times during installation that the computer might 
> support PCMCIA; kind of highly irritating because it's a desktop system 
> wighout any PC-Card slots. Might be caused by the Netgear WLAN card or 
> just a strange error.

You were in expert mode...blah blah..:-)

> - The partitioning tool ist quite nice; however, it should not suggest 
> partitionings which don't work (1024 limit).

I guess that more details are needed here.

> - The setting of the timezone could be easier; it's painless, if you 
> have a Windows PC where you can look it up, but most users don't care 
> too much about their timezone relative to GMT; so maybe a simple list 
> ("your hardware clock is... GMT time is... if you are in..." or 
> something like this).


Well, the hundreds Windows machines I install and, unfortunately am in
duty to keep in good shape, indeed have a timezone setup which refers
to GMTAgain, the extra question you got about  cmputer clock and
GMT only shows up in expertmode...which is not aimed at novice users.

> - The text mode interface for d-i is fine for me, there's IMHO no need 
> for a graphical installer.

Though this is widely true, there are indeed arguments for a graphical
installer anyway. Mine is opening internationalisation by adding an
easier support for some languages families.

> - d-i could offer some advice for configuring the computer for certain 
> tasks (router, file server, desktop workstation etc.) or at least point 
> to the task system. But a user which doesn't finds out quickly about it 
> will surely fail with Debian anyway.


This is tasksel extensions (new tasks probably) which will be added
post-sarge and, I'm afraid, if some manpower comes in the d-i team:-)



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