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INSTALL REPORT

Debian-installer-version:
Tue Aug 03 07:00:00 CEST 2004
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

uname -a:
Linux balu 2.6.3-1-386 #2 Tue Feb 24 20:20:23 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Date:
Tue Aug 04 19:00:00 CEST 2004

Method: How did you install? What did you boot off? If network
install, from where? Proxied?
Medium: Installer CD - sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Boot: ATAPI DVD-ROM
Install: network install over DHCP ADSL router without proxy.
ftp.debian.de

Machine:
Self build :-)
Board:
MSI MS-7021 KT6V-LSR, VIA KT600
PCI:
Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI
Realtek 8139C
Creative Labs SB Live! 1024 (EMU10k1)
IDE:
Maxtor 4D080H4 80GB IDE
PLEXTOR DVDR PX-712A
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502
SCSI:
Plextor PX-40TSi
AGP:
MSI GeForce2 MX/MX 400
TFT-Display:
Fujitsu X19-1

Processor:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, Model 8, 256 KB L2

Memory:
2 * 256 MB DDR 333 Infineon

Root Device:
IDE, /dev/hda

Root Size/partition table: Feel free to paste the full partition
table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.
Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 14726 7421872+ 83 Linux ReiserFS /dev/hda2 14727 18795 2050776 83 Linux Ext2
/dev/hda3 18796 22864 2050776 83 Linux Swap
/dev/hda4 22865 158816 68519808 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 22865 81187 29394760+ 83 Linux ReiserFS /dev/hda6 81188 158816 39124984+ 83 Linux ReiserFS

hda1 -> /
hda2 -> /var
hda3 -> swap
hda5 -> /data1 (opt, home, www)
hda6 -> /data2 (archive disk)

Output of lspci and lspci -n:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:06.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface
0000:00:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08)
0000:00:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 08)
0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev
01)
0000:00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:3189 (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:b198
0000:00:06.0 0780: e159:0001
0000:00:07.0 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 08)
0000:00:07.1 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 08)
0000:00:08.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
0000:00:0a.0 0100: 1000:000c (rev 01)
0000:00:0f.0 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 0601: 1106:3227
0000:00:11.5 0401: 1106:3059 (rev 60)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 10de:0110 (rev b2)

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

Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O] (DHCP server in ADSL router)
Config network: [O] nothing done, fully automatic
Detect CD: [E]
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:

Although I'm a software engineer I'm also doing the system administration
at our company. I have installed about 50 Suse, Redhat and Solaris systems
in the last 4 years. But my favorite system is Debian. I'm using it since
1997 on all my private machines. Most times the Unstable version :-) Congratulations for the new debian installer - in my opinion it's the
biggest step in the debian history.

Now my comments:

- "Detect CD" Error - no fstab entry has been created for the Plextor SCSI
CD-Rom
- it would be nice to have some display resolution dialog at the beginning
of the installation. The installer chose a quite bad resolution for my
TFT.
- it would be nice to have a direct kernel version selection dialog/comment
at the beginning of the installation. I started the installation twice
until I booted with linux26. The VIA KT600 Mainboards needs 2.6, otherwise
(Kernel 2.4 which seems to be the default) DMA is not supported and the
installation takes extreme long time.
- the first and second installation menu seems to be a little bit
inconsistent.
The first dialog contains the text "affects default locale, ... and keyboard
layout...". The second dialog has the title "Select a keyboard layout". In
my opinion the "keyboard layout" text in the first dialog is wrong.
- I did a manual patitioning, because I prefer the var device to be ext2.
I have seen systems with harddisk defects which locked after several
minutes.
Because the systems had /var on a ReiserFS partition the logs containing the
harddisk warnings have been rolled back after system reboot. It took
much time to find the reason for the system freeze :-(
I think the debian partitioning tool is quite good. But I have seen two a
little bit unhandy things:
- it's quite difficult to find how to define a partition as swap partition
- if a set a partition to a mount point and afterwards want to set another
partition to a mount point, the already used mount point is shown again
in the list of available mount points
- I found no network configuration dialog. Ok the system was configured
through
the DHCP server of my ADSL router automatically, and this setup was ok

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