I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several
issues.
I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a
running Debian system for that.
Can anybody suggests how I should proceed? (5) is a fairly serious block.
Context:
Me: long-time Linux user. This is my first Debian install.
Computer: eMachine T2625
- Atlon XP 2600+
- 640M RAM
- 8G hard disk (small, not original, not previously partitioned)
Installation medium:
debian-40r0-i386-DVD-1.iso
I used the GUI installer.
Issues:
1) it wasn't clearly documented that even though there is a sequence
of 3 DVDs avaialble for download (for i386), only the first is
needed for (many?) installs.
2) I saw no published checksums for the .iso files. I find checksums
are a nice confidence-building measure.
For example, with Fedora I download the .iso from a random mirror
but download the checksums from the master site. This has revealed
problems at least once.
Even better than checksums would be signed checksums.
3) When I booted the installation DVD on my internal DVD writer, all
went well until this step failed, even on retry:
Load installer components from CD:
loading jfsutils-udeb
I avoided this problem by starting over, and booting from the
internal DVD reader.
4) For partitioning, I selected "Guided - use entire disk" and
"Separate /home partition".
- it allocated less swap than there is main memory. At least at
one time, swap had to be at least as big as main memory or the memory
would not be used.
- I was allowed to second-guess a number of partition attributes
proposed, but not the partition size, perhaps the most important
choice.
VT4 said: Partman: Error: unable to determine maximum new size for
partition
It seems as if the partitioner thinks that if I change the size,
the proposed partitions must actually exist.
5) far into the package install, just after X11 configuration, the GUI
stopped with
Configuring cupsys
Installation step failed
An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing
item again from the menu, or skip it and choose something else. The
failing step is: Select and install software
Retrying the whole "select and install software" step seems
brutal.
VT4 shows:
in-target: No Gutenprint PPD files to update.
...
in-target: updating the gdk-pixbuf loaders list for GTK+-2.4.0...
in-target: done.
in-target:
in-target: Setting up desktop-base (4.0.1)...
in-target:
in-target: tasksel: aptitiude failed (255)
main-menu[1363]: WARNING ***:Configuring 'pkgsel' failed with error
code 1
main-menu[1363]: WARNING **: Menu item 'pkgsel' failed.
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