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  • Bug#265335: Installation report

    From Christian Hudon@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 12 21:00:14 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Package: installation-reports

    Debian-installer-version: 1.0rc1
    uname -a: Linux odin 2.6.7 #2 SMP Wed Aug 11 15:31:22 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: August 10th, 2004
    Method: Network install, booted from Debian-installer CD-ROM. No proxies.

    Machine: Custom-built, Asus motherboard
    Processor: P4 2.8GHz
    Memory: 1GB
    Root Device: SATA /dev/sda
    Root Size/partition table: root 256MB, swap 1GB, usr and var on LVM, home automounted
    Output of lspci:
    0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
    0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
    0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
    0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
    0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
    0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
    0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
    0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02)0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02)
    0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
    0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
    0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (rev 01)
    0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 SE] (Secondary) (rev 01)
    0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
    0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)
    0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)

    Base System Installation Checklist:

    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]
    [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

    Comments/Problems:

    When configuring the X server after the reboot, I selected /dev/input/mice
    as the input device for the mouse. But when starting the X server, it complained
    that it couldn't open /dev/input/mice. I checked in /dev and the file was there...
    Trying with other programs (gpm) gave the same result. Presumably the module for
    /dev/input/mice wasn't getting loaded by the kernel installed by debian-installer
    1.0rc1.

    Also when starting the partion step I got some kind of warning about being careful
    and all that, with two options. I'm sorry I don't remember the specific screen. It was
    just a bit weird to be getting this since I was installing on a brand new (empty) disk.
    I understand the need to be careful, but I think that if the disk block containing
    the partion table is all zero, it's safe to assume that the disk is empty and jump
    straight to partitioning...




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