XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
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Package: installation-reports
Version: rc1
Severity: important

Got the business card ISO ( sarge-i386-businesscard.iso) from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc1/

The md5 sum, just in case there is some prob in the image, is 1421c409eacaafcf3c27881dfbbf5e18

The image was burnt on to an ordinary 640/700 MB CD-RW media.

I tried two install; one on my own system, a PIII800Mz, 128MB ram,
20gb seagate hdd and a IDE CDRW of little known make usually detected
as IDE1610 (onsecondary slave).

This attempt aborted, complaining of belng unable to mount the cd.

In normal operation, `dmesg |grep ide' gives :-

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Kernel command line: root-/dev/hda7 /vga=0x314 hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,7), internal journal
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,8), internal journal
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,9), internal journal
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,11), internal journal
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

Please let me know what further info (and how to find it) is required
to fix it.

The second install was at a friend's place, on a system with nvidia
graphics card, plenty of ram and a powerful processor, (he is an
employee of the dealer for AMD). Sorry, I have no more details of the
hw, (maybe, I can find out when I go there again in another 12 hours
to fix it) except what I give below.

First thing is that the graphic screen does not show on this monitor.

The problem encountered here was that this chap is using a Motorola Surfboard 5100 (?) USB cable modem (from asianetindia.net). THis
machine has no NIC card. There is no way I can figure out how to get
network over the USB port. (USB devices are well detected here).

I suspect out that even if I get the installer to detect the USB
network, the install scripts might not be configurable to use the USB connection.

And now, for serious newbie issue - woody installer used to show a
default IP address when NIC cards were installed on the relevant
screen. This installer does not do so.

Also, I could not figure out how to add a local repository on a filesystem using this image. dunno if this is a bug or feature.

Happy Hacking!!!


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