Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: RC3 netinst from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 13th May 2005 uname -a: Date: <Date and time of the install> Method: I booted from netinst image and installed packages from ftp.fi.debian.org
Machine: Custom machine Processor: PIII Memory: 128 Mb Root Device: /dev/hda Root Size/partition table: Output of lspci and lspci -n:$ lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40) 0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 16) 0000:00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40) 0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro Ultra TF $ lspci -n 0000:00:00.0 0600: 1106:0691 (rev c4) 0000:00:01.0 0604: 1106:8598 0000:00:07.0 0601: 1106:0686 (rev 40) 0000:00:07.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) 0000:00:07.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 16) 0000:00:07.4 0c05: 1106:3057 (rev 40) 0000:00:07.5 0401: 1106:3058 (rev 50) 0000:00:0f.0 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 74) 0000:01:00.0 0300: 1002:5446 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: The initial installation and reboot went 100% smoothly. The goal of my install is to have a working KDE desktop with OO.org, Firefox and Finnish i18n on desktop. I did not select any packages with tasksel, since I want a KDE only workstation and tasksel has no choice for KDE desktop. This seems to be a faq and despite it being a faq it's overlooked by tasksel developers. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=238962&archive=yes) Problems 1. Exim installation asks questions that are confusing to newbies. By default any mail delivery out or in should disabled without questions. I chose only local delivery without network connection. Exim asks for recipient of root and postmaster mail - this is confusing for beginners. Why not send them to root by default? Bug #51125 2. dictionaries-common/ispell issues a warning about default dictionary been set to finnish and not changed to american. This is an unnecessary warning message. 3. installs gcc by default - this is unnecessary, and might be a security risk 4. starting MTA (Exim) takes a long time 5. restarts MTA after removing read-edid and mdetect - restarting takes a very long time 6. installation ready, logged in OK 7. I checked the functionality of CDROM and Floppy drive since I've had problems with them previously on Sarge. They mounted, listed files and umounted OK in shell. 8. apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xfree86-common x-window-system-core kde openoffice.org openoffice.org-l10n-fi kdm kde-i18n-fi 9. cvs installation asks about location of repositories and invalid repositories - irrelevant questions for a desktop system. The directories should be set to default (/var/lib/cvs) and the directory created without questions. Bug #35152 should be reopened. 10. shows a complicated message about libpango1.0-common and pango.aliases. A very confusing message. Asks about trusting font management to defoma - this should be set to yes and not asked. I've filed a bug against this package. 11. Tested cdrom and floppy functionality in KDE - works fine except ejecting a cdrom. CDROM can be ejected as root only in terminal. I've filed a bug report against this package. Thanks for your hard work making the best OS on earth! Tapio Kautto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
