Package: installation-reports
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: How can I tell? It's the first Sarge
CD-set released
uname -a: Linux esfinge 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
Date: Thu Jun 16 18:49:46 BRT 2005
Method:
Installed from CD-ROM, and later configured APT to use the network.
I had some problem with apt-setup, but can't remember exactly what
it was (I think it didn't remove the CD-ROM entries from sources.list
when I decided to switch to network)
There is a squid proxy between us and the world, but we seldom
remember that. I used a Debian mirror that I already know and seems to
work well for me.
Machine: Old, brandless machine, as far as I can tell.
Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz
Memory: MemTotal: 646652 kB
Root Device: IDE (40 Gb harddisk)
Root Size/partition table:
hda1 Boot Primary Linux
ext3 [/] 279.66
hda5 Logical Linux ext3
[/usr] 5000.98
hda6 Logical Linux
ext3 [/var] 3002.23
hda7 Logical Linux
swap / Solaris 1941.17
hda8 Logical Linux
ext3 [/tmp] 403.04
hda9 Logical Linux
ext3 [/home] 29388.93
hdc1 Primary Linux
swap / Solaris 271.44
hdc2 Boot Primary Linux
ext3 [/] 4038.62
major minor #blocks name
3 0 39082680 hda
3 1 273073 hda1
3 2 1 hda2
3 5 4883728 hda5
3 6 2931831 hda6
3 7 1895638 hda7
3 8 393561 hda8
3 9 28700091 hda9
22 0 4210416 hdc
22 1 265041 hdc1
22 2 3943957 hdc2
Frankly, I have partitioned automatically, and wasn't expecting such a
small partition for /tmp. Sometimes we need temporary storage for big
files (1Gb, etc).
# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
(rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge
(rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
02)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 04)
# lspci -n
0000:00:00.0 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02)
0000:00:0b.0 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0300: 5333:8a22 (rev 04)
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: [E]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [E]
Create file systems: [E]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
- "Load installer modules"? What are the "installer modules"?
Comments/Problems:
- Before installing, I needed to backup some data from the HD. I thought
I'd use the first CD as rescue CD, but there was no 'rescue' boot option!
I had to use my old Woody installation CDs (I'm glad I had them there!)
- I was happy to see that the installation was very fast and easy, if compared
to the previous Woody installations. It was also nice to see that the
installer is quite smart and detects the gateway, makes good guesses about the
DNS server, netmask, etc. And it guessed the box name right away.
However, I had to wait until DHCP gave up so I could enter the settings
manually
(we don't use DHCP here!)
- I would have installed install LVM if the instructions on the install process
weren't so confusing. It said I had to partition first, save the partition
table
and only later decide to use LVM, but didn't make ti clear if my partitioning
would become lvm physical volumes or logical volumes. A brief explanation of
how
exactly the installer would handle this would be quite helpful.
- For some reason the CDs I was using had problems when I was installing the
packages Probably because the CD-ROM drive is old... But after the installer
tried to read the CD, *I had no option to give up!* -- it would fail
to mount the CD, and neither ^C nor nothing else would make it stop. I had to
reboot the box. It should be possible to go back and change to network if
necessary.
- It's nice that it creates the FS less verbosely, but this time I needed more
verbosity. The process stalled (old disk), and I wasn't sure if it was slow
or if it wasn't working. It should be possible to switch the view and see the
actual progress of the current command.
I think the new installer is absolutely good. Everything was easier and faster,
and (most of the time) guesses were very reasonable. Congratulations!
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