Bug#517571: lenny mini.iso broken (at least on i386)

[Noah Meyerhans]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

It seems that /etc/udeb-source contains unstable in the lenny
mini.iso.  Since the udebs are downloaded via the network when using
mini.iso, the installer ends up pulling in udebs from current unstable
and failing due to some recently introduced incompatibilities.

Switching to vt2 and changing /etc/udeb-source to contain stable
before the downloading the installer components (in expert mode) allows
the installation to procede.

noah



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Bug#514248: installation-reports: lenny RC2 powerpc installation report

[Noah Meyerhans]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Just passing along a report of a smooth and successful installation of
lenny RC2 for PPC.

The only snag was when I tried to install onto an existing partition
without re-creating the filesystem.  I haven't managed to find any
details in the logs regarding this failure.  Creating a new filesystem
worked fine and things proceded smoothly from there.

-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: RC2 netinst
Date: 2009-02-04

Machine: Mac G4 Cube


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:  [O]
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[O]
Overall install:[O]

Comments/Problems:

Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
  and ideas you had during the initial install.


-- 

Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report. Please compress large files using gzip.

Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org.

==
Installer lsb-release:
==
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Debian GNU/Linux installer
DISTRIB_RELEASE=5.0 (lenny) - installer build 20090123
X_INSTALLATION_MEDIUM=cdrom

==
Installer hardware-summary:
==
umame -a: Linux rubik 2.6.26-1-powerpc #1 Sat Jan 10 14:00:38 CET 2009 ppc 
unknown
lspci -knn: :00:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP 
[106b:0020]
lspci -knn: :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation 
NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev a1)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: nvidiafb
lspci -knn: 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth PCI 
[106b:001f]
lspci -knn: 0001:10:17.0 Class [ff00]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O 
[106b:0022] (rev 03)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: macio
lspci -knn: 0001:10:18.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo 
USB [106b:0019]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 0001:10:19.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo 
USB [106b:0019]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
lspci -knn: 0001:10:1a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments 
TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link) [104c:8020]
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: ohci1394
lspci -knn: 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 
Internal PCI [106b:001e]
lspci -knn: 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Apple Computer Inc. 
UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) [106b:0021] (rev 01)
lspci -knn: Kernel driver in use: gem
lspci -knn: Kernel modules: sungem
lsmod: Module  Size  Used by
lsmod: nls_utf85248  0 
lsmod: ufs83172  0 
lsmod: hfsplus84228  0 
lsmod: dm_mod 60524  0 
lsmod: md_mod 88308  0 
lsmod: xfs   521380  0 
lsmod: reiserfs  259860  0 
lsmod: jfs   179884  0 
lsmod: hfs51364  0 
lsmod: ext3  134056  1 
lsmod: jbd49204  1 ext3
lsmod: vfat   14208  0 
lsmod: fat52188  1 vfat
lsmod: ext2   73224  0 
lsmod: mbcache11136  2 ext3,ext2
lsmod: eth139418980  0 
lsmod: sungem 32772  0 
lsmod: sungem_phy 14848  1 sungem
lsmod: isofs  35208  0 
lsmod: nls_base   10496  7 nls_utf8,hfsplus,jfs,hfs,vfat,fat,isofs
lsmod: zlib_inflate   18112  1 isofs
lsmod: sbp2   22988  0 
lsmod: usb_storage91688  0 
lsmod: scsi_mod  153324  2 sbp2,usb_storage
lsmod: usbhid 47812  0 
lsmod: hid45032  1 usbhid
lsmod: ff_memless  8360  1 usbhid
lsmod: ohci1394   35728  0 
lsmod: ide_cd_mod 35620  0 
lsmod: ieee1394   91200  3 eth1394,sbp2,ohci1394
lsmod: cdrom  40088  1 ide_cd_mod
lsmod: ide_disk   16320  3 
df: Filesystem   1k-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
df: tmpfs   25728068257212   0% /dev
df: /dev/hda1110321208   3194800   6602120  33% /target
df: /dev/hda1110321208   3194800   6602120  33% /dev/.static/dev
df: tmpfs   25728068257212   0% /target/dev
free:   total used 

Re: Call for testing of RC2 images

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19:17AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
 The Debian-CD Team has built the images based on RC2 installer and
 I'd like to ask for some tests before we finally announce the release.
 
 The images are available at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/.lenny_bibble/
 
 Please send feedback to the mailing list (even successful ones).

I just completed a fairly basic install on an alpha (AlphaStation
5/333).  Things went smoothly using the netinst image.

noah



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problem with grub and separate /boot partition

[Noah Meyerhans]

I completed an installation using the beta2 debian-installer.  I'm sorry
if this is a known issue, but I figured I'd report it, just in case.

I put /boot on /dev/hda1, and / on /dev/hda3.  The grub menu.lst file
that was generated, however, set 'root (hd0,2)' which is incorrect.
Manually changing it to 'root (hd0,0)' fixed things.

noah



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problem with ethernet driver loading

[Noah Meyerhans]

I installed sarge using d-i beta2 on a system with a nVidia nForce
ethernet interface built in to the motherboard.  There are no drivers
for this hardware in the kernel included with beta2.  That's OK, and
understandable.  The problem was that I was prompted to choose a driver
for my network hardware after each and ever step in the installation
process.  Natually, the answer was none of the above each time.

Aside from that and the grub-installer problem mentioned in a separate
message, everything went very smoothly.

I apologize if this was a known issue.  I'll try a newer d-i build over
the weekend and report on it, if it's likely to fix these problems.

noah



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Re: problem with ethernet driver loading

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 08:17:44PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
  I installed sarge using d-i beta2 on a system with a nVidia nForce
  ethernet interface built in to the motherboard.  There are no drivers
  for this hardware in the kernel included with beta2.  That's OK, and
  understandable.  The problem was that I was prompted to choose a driver
  for my network hardware after each and ever step in the installation
  process.  Natually, the answer was none of the above each time.
 
 Was this the netinst CD??

No, the was the 100MB base install CD.

noah



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