Package: installation-reports Version: Jessie 20140216-10:08 Severity: normal
Boot method: Netinst image on USB stick Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 20140216, ~ 18:00UTC 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: I installed testing from a USB stick with the image: Debian GNU/Linux testing "Jessie" - Official Snapshot amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20140216-10:08 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T440s, set up in full UEFI mode (with CSM compatibility mode turned off). Everything did eventually work with a few glitches: * After letting the installer try a "Guided partitioning - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM", i decided to redo the partitioning manually, to be able to change some parameters (smaller EFIboot partition, smaller number of inodes in ext4 partitions). After going back to manual partitioning mode, I was not able to find a way to clear the already defined encrypted disk to be able to start from zero the manual configuration: i finally had to reboot and restart the installation. It would be nice to have the possibility to delete the encrypted devices already defined, or to force the deletion of a partition even if an encrypted device is already defined on top of it. * After finishing installation with "Manual partitioning" the encrypted volume was NOT entered into /etc/crypttab, therefore the system could not successfully reboot, but ended in the initramfs. After manually adding the encrypted volume into crypttab everything worked as expected. * It doesn't seem to be possible (in expert mode) to proceed with an installation using already (manually) formatted disks, without going through the "Partition disks" step: a "Mount disks" step could be really helpful! Defining the disk type ext4 and the mountpoint for the ext4 partitions i could avoid getting them reformatted, but the installer did want to unconditionally reformat my already defined ext2 BOOT partition. Minor items: * the trackpad did not work in graphical expert mode, but the trackpoint did (even if both are enabled in bios) * it would be nice to have a clear information about what the "standard" type of ext4 filesystem means in terms of file size. The options "news", "largefile" and "largefile4" say that they correspond to 4KB, 1MB and 4MB files respectively. The type "standard" does not say anything. Thanks for your work, regards --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
