On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:28:39PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > On 15/08/15 12:05, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >I installed from alpha2, and it mostly worked. > >Devuan boots up properly, and runs. I'm currently ssh-ed in to another > >machine where I have my email, accessible via mutt. > > Thanks for the report. Was it a standard install or expert-mode and > was it Jessie, Ascii or Ceres?
An expert-install. I am somewhat particular about the partitioning, and didn't know whether a standard install would give me the options I wanted. And Jessie. I love that Jessie and Ascii are planetoid names! > > > >There were a few glitches: > > > >(1) it still offered to install the system on my installer USB stick. > >I wasn't stupid enough to fall for this ruse, and specified my hard > >drive. > > That's odd. I hadn't noticed that... could be a hardware specific issue. I do remember that if was discussed on either this or the Debian boot mailing list some time ago. I thought it had been fixed long ago. > > > >(2) Going through the steps one by one, I got to setting up MD devices. > >I made the mistake of asking it to do this. I had no MD devices on this > >machine, so I expected it just to moce on to the next step, after > >possibly dong some internal overhead to tell it this had been done. > > > >Instead, the screen went blank and stayed that way for a long time (at > >least ten minutes). For a while the disk light on my laptop blinked, > >then even taht stopped. I eventually used ctl-alt-F2 to get a console, > >but a few commands there (such as ps) left me no wiser. I went back to > >ctl-alt-F1, and after a long hesitation, did control-C. > > > >I recovered control, and once again was aat the set up MD devices > >step. I bypassed it and went on to the next step. > > That's really weird behaviour. Yes. if I ever install this system again, I'll make sure to sskip this step. > > > >(3) The 'configure the package manager' step worked, but the text on > >that page refers to Debian, not Devuan. > > Known issue Not serious for now, anyway. > > > >(4) popcon: The text says it sends popularity stats to > >http://popcon.debian.org. Now perhaps devuan does not have a popcon > >server set up yet. In any case, I bypassed this step, lest I > >contaminate Debian's statistics. Was that the righht thing to do? > > > I like contaminating Debians popcon stats... I occasionally check > their popcon for the devuan-keyring package as a guage for how many > Devuan installs have been done :-) Ah! Fun. How would Debian feel about this, I wonder. popcon seems to handle packages that aren't in Debian! > > >(5) The select and install software step told me it would take about an > >hour. I went away and did other things, such as laundry. When I came > >back to the laptop I was faces with the message that this step had > >failed, and that I could either skip this step or retry it. > > > >I retried it and this time it succeeded. > > > >What might th eprooble have been? Network congestion? Weird package > >dependencies? I have no idea. > > Most likely a dependency loop that was solved in the second pass. There's probably no way to track it sown at this stage. Or is there a installation log somewhere? > > > >(6) When it came time to install grub, it told me that my machine does > >an EFI boot. That was a surprise to me. It is an ancient XP laptop, > >and I just replaced its hard disk with a new, empty one before the > >install (this no WIndows). I did let it install an EFI bootloader on a > >USB stick (my installlation USB stick, as it happened) and it did > >something. > > > It should only do that if the machine booted the installer from EFI > in the first place. Strange. I've never changed the boot method, and it always booted XP fine, with an MBR-style partition table. I could partition the old system with Linux's fdisk, and fdisk suffices to show me the partition table, without complaint. fdisk even tells me that: Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. That's the extended partition that cotains everything Linux. There's a 40G partition in frint if it that may some day contain a coopy of my old WIndows XP, in case I discover I still need it. > > >But the machine booted properly without using the stick. > OK. That's good. > > > >The machine is an Asus EEEPC 1000He, the first of the EEEPC's that did > >not need any proprietary Linux drivers, and the first that came with > >Windows installed instead of Linux. > > > Nice. How does it perform. Well enough for everyday non-game use. It doesn't have a really fast video chip, and flash videos have aleays been the pits. But the new HTML5 video is OK, and s=things like VLC perform adequately for video. They didn't when the machine was new, but things have beenn getting faster and faster as the years passed. > > >I installed from the devuan-jessie-netboot-i386-alpha2.iso > > > >-- hendrik > > Thanks for the report Hendrik > > -- > Daniel Reurich > Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. > 021 797 722 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
