Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>
Debian 7.2.0 DVD Disc #1
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>
Date: <Date and time of the install> Downloaded 11/21/13, installed 11/22/13 AM
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> IBM Thinkpad t42P
Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.8GHz
Memory: 1GB
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
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.>
Replacing Windows XP with Linux.
Install went fine. When system rebooted, Gnome failed to start.
(Gnome failed on the previously
installed Fedora 19 release too). I was hoping to install KDE with
Debian on this
install, but that wasn't an easy choice. At least with Debian, there
was a fallback to
a usable terminal window (Fedora hung waiting for the desktop init to complete).
Would like to have an option during install to select from a list of
Desktop GUIs.
Gnome, KDE, ???
--
Al Vesper
