Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: beta3: sarge-i386-netinst.iso http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta3/sarge-i386-netinst.iso uname -a: Linux aslan 2.4.25-1-386 #1 Tue Feb 24 08:11:13 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Date: Friday 16th april 2004, from 13:30 to 14:45 (CEST) (it went smoothly...) Method: Booted netinst CD, wiped whole harddisk, had (to my surprise) a proxyless connection to ftp.nl.debian.org Machine: Dell optiplex, one of those older models Processor: Pentium III 550MHz Memory: 128MB, don't know more about it Root Device: IDE harddisk Root Size/partition table: As created by the installer: aslan:/# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse running use aveq 3 0 15007608 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc 191301 742908 7473570 6305310 316772 2726037 24357784 17732494 -1 16686504 6130380 3 1 14506663 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 188396 731368 7358298 6063650 314786 2714652 24246616 17432884 0 3861700 23505084 3 2 1 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 497983 ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 2897 11500 115176 241510 1986 11385 111168 299610 0 216630 545700 aslan:/# Output of lspci: pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) 0000:00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03) 0000:00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) 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: - The LCD monitor (Compaq) blanked out after a few seconds of inactivity when booted from CD, ctrl+F2 and back to F1 usually helped for a short moment. Needed to be replaced with an old-fashioned CRT. This problem was gone after the reboot. I heard this was previously also noticed using a RedHat rescue CD, problem seems to only show up when booting from CD, and not when booting from HD. I've no clue about causes... - General: went VERY smoothly, everything I could dream of was auto-detected, I was very delighted to notice I didn't have to spend days on the X config for example. Great work people! - ssh-client was not on the netinst, while ssh is sometimes required to fix networking. - X: it defaulted to not autodetect my mouse... why not? - installing desktop task, gets you both kde and gnome, whith kde as default (I choose GDM, and wasn't asked for kde/gnome. For desktop PC's, I can imagine people want either KDE or Gnome, but not necessarily both... - Idem for editors, I want the Debian OS, not the emacs OS... (okay, I admit, this is nitpicking) - apache2 was default, but apache2+php4 module = not working - installing both php4 and php4-cgi, makes apache2 use the cgi version of php4. - apt-get --purge remove apache2 gave warnings about files in /etc (I didn't touch the config), apache2 remained running after apache2 was gone. Installing apache (1.3) didn't make it start running) - The php4 readme.debian had outdated info (and very unorganized) about how to enable the php4 module in apache (you need to run modules-update apache enable mod_php4), which should be done by postinst imho anyway (didn't happen, don't know whether it's intentional). - Installing php4-cgi installed in apache2 automatically... don't know whether that's how it's supposed to work (php4 should be preferred if both are available imho) - Installing mysql popped up a huge note about upgrading issues... while it was a clean install (debconf abuse) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]