Hi Enrico, On Thursday 14 December 2006 09:23, Enrico Zini wrote: > Comments/Problems: > * Network cards > I could not access the network using the ipw3945 wireless card. That > was expected, since the driver packages are in non-free.
Correct.
> I noticed that a package "firmware-ipw3945-di_0.3_all.udeb" exists,
> but I could not find any info on how to use it
That's probably going to be post-Etch.
> The Ethernet network card did not seem to be detected: with ifconfig
> I could bring up only a device with a very long MAC. I don't have the
> model available, but I'll provide it in the next install report.
Please provide 'lspci -nn'.
> Had I managed to detect the ethernet card I could have tried to use
> pppoe: I've noticed that there is a udeb for it in the netinst CD,
> but I haven't seen anything about udeb in the installer.
-EPARSE the last part of the sentence
To use pppoe you need to boot the installer with "priority=medium" and
select the ppp used as an "additional component". You then have to make
sure you select the pppoe menu item instead of the regular network
configuration as the installer currently for unknown reasons skips it.
> * Partitioning
> Initially I chose to use LVM plus encryption. After getting the
> warning about cyphering being untested
That warning is gone now. Feel free to use it.
> I selected the option in the
> warning dialog to not use encryption, but the partitioner would still
> have all the encription parts turned on.
You should have been able to select "Guided partitioning" in the main
partman screen again and select a different guided partitioning option.
> I redid the install and chose plain LVM, then I told it to use the
> entire disk. At that point creating the volume group failed: in the
> log, there was the help message of vccreate and at the top it said
> "Please enter physical volume name(s)". Later on in the installer I
> chose to create the volume group, gave it a name and it worked.
If you can reproduce this it would be worth tracing. To get a debug log of
partman, add "set -x" at the top of /lib/partman/definitions.sh before
partman is started. Send us the gzipped syslog after that.
> When I chose to use the whole disk, I got a dialog asking for
> confirmation because the installer found an existing partition (the
> MS Windows junk that came with the laptop). The Italian message was:
> "Le seguenti partizioni saranno formattate" (part n.1 con fat32)"
> The message probably wanted to say that the existing fat32 partition
> will be deleted ("cancellate"), not formatted ("formattate").
I cannot reproduce this. If I start with a disk with fat on it and select
guided partitioning with LVM, I only get a message that the partition
table for the disk is going to be rewritten, nothing about individual
partitions. After that I get a confirmation for the new partitions, but
of course those are not fat.
Can you reproduce this in an English install and give the exact full
message?
> 'volume group' is translated as 'gruppo di volumi'. Personally it
> would be clearer to me if it were left as 'volume group', but meh.
Best discuss that on d-l10n-italian.
> * Other bits
> - In the Italian translation, the phrase "Se si sta installando dal
> CD netinst e si sceglie di non usare in mirror ci si troverà solo
> con un sistema base veramente minimale" is repeated twice, the
> second time with slight variations but same meaning.
If this was in one single dialog, the English template is:
_Description: Use a network mirror?
A network mirror can be used to supplement the software that is included
on the CD-ROM. This may also make newer versions of software available.
.
If you are installing from a netinst CD and you choose not to use a
mirror, you will end up with only a very minimal base system.
IMO this does not contain any redundancy. Please discuss on the Italian
l10n list.
> - I told not to use a mirror, and I got a big red warning saying
> that the installer could not access the security updates websites and
> commented them out, and later on I should find out what happened.
Known issue.
> - When choosing the system I selected "laptop" and it asks me to
> install the binary 1 CD. I don't have the CD, and the menu
> doesn't have a "cancel" option, so it looped forever.
Probably it is just asking for the netinst CD. It of course cannot know
about the full binary 1 CD as that was never scanned.
So the real question is which package it was looking for or why it would
think that the CD was not loaded. Any info in the syslog on that?
Also, I cannot reproduce this. If I select the desktop task with a current
netinst, all 12 (wow!) packages are installed correctly. Note that
selecting the laptop task with only a netinst available is pretty
useless.
Cheers,
FJP
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