Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-CD-1.iso
Date: 14 April 2008, 22:00 GMT.
      cdimage labelle "20080407-12:13"

Machine: Intel
Processor: Intel core quad Q6600
Memory: 8GB
Partitions:
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1     ext3    18398028   1521560  15941892   9% /
tmpfs        tmpfs     4095644         0   4095644   0% /lib/init/rw
udev         tmpfs       10240       136     10104   2% /dev
tmpfs        tmpfs     4095644         0   4095644   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/muf-data
              ext3   278120552  11543432 252449404   5% /data
/dev/mapper/muf-home
              ext3     5160576    141460   4756972   3% /home
/dev/mapper/muf-var
              ext3     5160576    394376   4504056   9% /var

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

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [E]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

2 problems. One minor and one more annoying.

* After partitionning (3HDD in a RAID5 array into a LVM), there was an error message saying that /dev/md0p1 was inexistant and that stuff there won't be available until next reboot. Choosing "ignore" and going on with the installation gave a working system in the end, so this is no big trouble.

* When configuring apt, the installer scan the CD1 for packages, then ask whether there are other CD to scan (in my case, there wasn't). Then the installer looks for the CD1 in order to get the packages. However, /cdrom wasn't umount between these two tasks and the installer kept asking for the CD labelled "CD1"... I had to switch to a console and manually umount /cdrom in order to have the installer succeding in (re)mounting it and finding the packages in it. Similarly, at the end of the install (before rebooting, can't remember when precisely), there was a similar problem and I had to manually mount the CD so that installation can go on.

Nothing preventing from getting a working installation, but the mount/umount problem is pretty annoying, especially if one doesn't know the basic mechanics of the installation process...

--
Hypocoristiquement,
Jym.


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