Package: installation-reports Severity: important Debian-installer-version: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 (as released when sarge became stable) obtained from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/, IIRC uname -a: Linux (none) 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:01:58 EST 2005 i586 unknown Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 17:43:45 +0200 (latest try...) Method: I tried to install from CD, booting from CD (with the help of a Smart Boot Manager floppy). No network for this machine.
Machine: (Old) assembled minitower machine. Processor: Pentium-S Clock frequency: 120 MHz Memory: 32 Mibyte (successfully checked with two full memtest86 runs) Root Device: /dev/hda (IDE) Root Size/partition table: I didn't reach the partitioning step... Output of lspci and lspci -n: # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430VX - 82437VX TVX [Triton VX] (rev 01) 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II] (rev 01) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II] 0000:00:0e.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 53) # lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:7030 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.0 0601: 8086:7000 (rev 01) 0000:00:07.1 0101: 8086:7010 0000:00:0e.0 0300: 5333:8811 (rev 53) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [E] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] Comments/Problems: I booted from CD (with the help of a Smart Boot Manager floppy), selecting "linux26". After the low memory warning, I chose the Italian keyboard keymap. The CD detection went fine: debian-installer scanned the CD Debian archive. The "Loading components of the Debian Installer" step went on from 0 to 85 % (I think), then... 0. the screen blanked for a while 1. the interface got repainted (again "Loading components of the Debian Installer") 2. the progress bar restarted from zero 3. progress status said "unpacking base-installer" 4. the progress bar reached 10 % 5. goto 0. (in a seemingly endless loop) Actually the loop was repeated a few times and then I got a permanent blank screen. Switching on the fourth virtual terminal (ALT+F4) shows that there's still activity: an endless loop of 82 identical lines are logged to /var/log/syslog. I counted them by switching on the second virtual terminal (ALT+F2) and determining that # tail -83 /var/log/syslog shows the first line identical to the last one (apart from the date, of course...). Unfortunately I couldn't mount any floppy disk or hard disk: as a consequence, I was not able to save those log lines. :-( Please note that the CD and CD reader seem to work properly: I could successfully check the CD content md5sums from a previosly installed system (I mean: on the same machine), by mounting the CD and issueing the following command in the CD root directory: $ md5sum -cv md5sum.txt I cannot go on with the installation. I even tried in expert mode, but got similar errors... What can I do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]