Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD image Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso Date: Completed at Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:51 (UTC)
Machine: VMware Workstation 5.5.1 running on Windows XP SP2 Processor: Pentium4 550 (3.4GHz) Memory: 256MB for guest Partitions: please see below; /dev/hda2 is formatted for reiserfs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 12.8 GB, 12884901888 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1566 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 66 530113+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 67 309 1951897+ 83 Linux ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Output of lspci and lspci -n: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08) 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10) 00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02) # lspci -n 00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 01) 00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 01) 00:07.0 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 08) 00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01) 00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 08) 00:0f.0 0300: 15ad:0405 00:10.0 0200: 1022:2000 (rev 10) 00:11.0 0401: 1274:1371 (rev 02) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: Installation was made through GUI with C locale, where the country was set to Japan. No additional packages were installed by tasksel for my preference. The graphical installer basically worked okay for me, but I would like to give some comments: * The user interface for manual partitioning is much far from intuitive. This may make those who have not experienced the console installer be in trouble over understanding usage. * Option for skipping creation of a normal user is wanted, because some situations (e.g. users managed by LDAP or NIS) require no local users to be created. * It is strange for me that both 2.6.16-2-686 and 2.6-686 are presented as choice for the kernel to be installed, since they seem exactly the same (i.e. both are linux-image-2.6.16-2-686). * It would be better if prompt is made to ask whether the user wants to keep (or remove) apt-line for CD-ROM installation. * I think the hardware clock should be assumed to be set for local time zone, not UTC, especially for a dual-boot system with Windows. * It should be informed, in a way typical users can easily notice, that the pciutils package is needed for the lspci command. I had to spend several minutes to find this issue in making this report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
