Package: installation-reports INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Debian Sarge Installer RC1 Netinst (PowerPC) uname -a: Linux kunigunde.dynalias.net 2.6.7-powerpc #1 Thu Aug 5 23:48:59 CEST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux Date: Do Aug 12 22:00 CEST 2004 Method: Net-install within LAN, booted from CD-ROM Machine: iBook 2.2 (800 MHz Combo) Processor: 750FX (according to /proc/cpuinfo; a G3) Memory: 640MB Root Device: TOSHIBA MK3018GAS, ATA DISK drive Root Size/partition table: kunigunde# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap boot 1954 @ 64 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 gnu 9765626 @ 2018 ( 4.7G) Linux native /dev/hda4 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_10 23606144 @ 29671360 ( 11.3G) HFS /dev/hda5 Apple_Free Extra 19903716 @ 9767644 ( 9.5G) Free space /dev/hda6 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_11 5065456 @ 53539648 ( 2.4G) HFS /dev/hda7 Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 53277504 (128.0M) Free space /dev/hda8 Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 58605104 ( 8.0k) Free space Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 kunigunde# /dev/hda3 is mounted as root. Output of lspci and lspci -n: lspci: 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] 0001:01:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea PCI 0001:01:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea Mac I/O 0001:01:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 0001:01:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 0002:02:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea Internal PCI 0002:02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea FireWire 0002:02:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM) lspci -n: 0000:00:0b.0 0600: 106b:0027 0000:00:10.0 0300: 1002:4c57 0001:01:0b.0 0600: 106b:0028 0001:01:17.0 ff00: 106b:0025 0001:01:18.0 0c03: 106b:0026 0001:01:19.0 0c03: 106b:0026 0002:02:0b.0 0600: 106b:0029 0002:02:0e.0 0c00: 106b:0030 0002:02:0f.0 0200: 106b:0024 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: [E] 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: * My user skills I'd say I'm a beginner to intermediate Debian user. I use Debian, and thus Linux, for now about 16 months as my main Desktop system, always fiddling around... ;-) Before install, I have read the Sarge Installation Manual -- not very thoroughly, but trying to grab the essentials. Partly, I returned to the manual during install. * About this report The installation was about a week ago. This report is based on notes taken during install, and from memory. * Preparations I had prepartitioned the disk with Apple's DriveSetup. This was really messy, by the way -- which partitions are actually _first_ on the disk? I couldn't tell but had to try. And DriveSetup doesn't seem the right tool to create small partitions... * Setting Initial install of Debian, targetting a dual-boot Debian/MacOSX setup. Installation took place in a LAN with static (non-DHCP) IPs. The installation was in german. (Good translations!) I sticked to the english installation manual, however. * Initial problems Booting plain "install" image resulted in a blank screen, "debian-installer/framebuffer=false" had no effect, but video=ofonly fixed it. I also booted install-24 (?) (but didn't proceed to install with this kernel), this worked out of the box. Documentation of the different kernel versions is quite sparse (at least), so I sticked to the default. * Mysterious error during boot Just before country-chooser started and blanked the screen, I noticed a "FATAL <more text here>" message just after klogd started, but it was too quick to read it. The entire install then proceeded on a red background. * Note on configuring the network The installer offered two NICs for configuration, the second being a firewire device I actually didn't know of. :-) Having configured the first ethernet card, the installer again said something like "it is necessary to configure/select a NIC". This made no sense to me, and I skipped this step. * Misdetected PCMCIA interface Hardware-detection found a PCMCIA interface that isn't there -- at least AFAIK :-) So I didn't start the PC-Card services. * Note on partitioning the hard drive "Enter partition table by hand" sounds quite frightening. I selected it anyways as the other options were not clear, and too automatic for my taste. And I was really relieved that actually I didn't have to really _edit the raw partition table_ by hand... :-) Two points: - These cute little icons/labels indicating the partition type are undocumented, right? - I needed some time to figure out/guess that I had to manually setup a "NewWorld bootblock" to bootstrap the system. Partman complained as I tried to proceed without such a partition. But is this need documented? If it is, I didn't find it. * network failure after reboot The network setup was not preserved over reboot. This made e.g. apt-setup fail with "temporary failure resolving <apt-source>", which trashed tasksel also, of course. I found that /etc/network/interfaces was empty and /etc/resolv.conf didn't exist. Fixed it manually, but had to install standard packages later, manually. See the extract from /var/log/debian-installer/syslog below. * exim4 configuration I skipped exim4-config's configuration. The dialog "Really not configure Exim?" had two choices, "yes/no". "no" means to really leave it unconfigured. This is not clear. As I reran base-config later, configuring exim4-config resulted in "exim configuration error in /var/lig/exim4/config.autogenerated: malformed macro definition. Exiting." Hm. Unfortunately I can no longer tell what I had selected, and I'm not familiar with exim4 :-/ * Final notes, overall impression X is still not running (blank screen). :-/ BTW, installing gnome-desktop-environment didn't install an X server... The resulting Sarge system is not well tested yet, I may have overlooked other issues. The d-i interface's look&feel, the structure of the installation process made a good impression, although I think d-i is still clearly beta. Besides the remaining problems, I found (pre)partitioning the hard disk the most troublesome task, but this is, IMO, mainly due to lack of control with DriveSetup, and partly due to lack of detailed documentation within the Sarge Installation Manual. Don't ask how the actual partition table came to being... :-( * Extract from syslog concerning network setup kunigunde# grep netcfg /var/log/debian-installer/syslog Aug 12 21:59:11 anna[3515]: DEBUG: ask for netcfg, is installer item Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): accept cdebconf-udeb, already installed Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): accept cdebconf-udeb, already installed Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:12 anna[3515]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 21:59:32 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:32 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:32 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:32 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:32 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:32 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: Menu item 'netcfg' selected Aug 12 21:59:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: configure netcfg, status: 2 Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: INFO: Executing: mii-diag -s eth0 Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: Basic registers of MII PHY #0: 3000 782d 0040 61e4 01e1 0081 0004 2001. Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled. Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: You have link beat, and everything is working OK. Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: Your link partner is generating 100baseTx link beat (no autonegotiation). Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: End of basic transceiver information. Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: Aug 12 21:59:39 netcfg[5779]: INFO: link status for eth0 is: connected (0) Aug 12 22:00:22 netcfg[5779]: Nothing to flush. Aug 12 22:00:22 netcfg[5779]: INFO: executing: ip addr add 192.168.1.4/24 dev eth0 Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: Menu item 'netcfg' selected Aug 12 22:00:22 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: configure netcfg, status: 4 Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: INFO: Menu item 'netcfg' succeeded but requested to be left unconfigured. Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:27 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 22:00:35 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:35 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:35 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:35 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:35 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:00:35 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 22:08:17 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:08:17 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:08:17 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:08:17 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:08:17 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:08:17 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 22:13:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:34 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 22:13:40 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:40 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (libiw27-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:40 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (dhcp-client-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:40 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (ethernet-card-detection): search, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:40 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (mii-diag-udeb): mark, dependency from netcfg Aug 12 22:13:40 main-menu[429]: DEBUG: resolver (netcfg): mark Aug 12 22:13:50 prebaseconfig: info: Running /usr/lib/prebaseconfig.d/40netcfg kunigunde# I hope this report is useful. Go for the best Debian release ever! Greetings, Nikolaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]