Debian Installation :: Incomplete Squeeze - Many Packages Missing?
Mar 25, 2011
I tried to install Squeeze on a new laptop. The installation finished and I was able to log in, but a significant number of packages were missing, including network-manager and network-manager-gnome, OpenOffice, and gdebi. Everything under the System | Administration menu except Login Screen was missing. There's probably more missing, too, but I am not sure how to tell.
It happened a few times but with slightly different results (e.g. I think on one of the earlier install attempts, Iceweasel didn't get installed, but it was included in the most recent attempt). I tried installing using 6.0.1's CD 1, and 6.0.0's hybrid Live image on a USB stick (in both cases, the GNOME version). I had used the same USB stick to install Squeeze successfully on another laptop last week (i.e. I successfully got a complete, working install; I made no changes to the USB stick; then tried to install using it on this new laptop, and saw this behavior).
I tried using both the graphical and text installers. At the step asking what packages you want installed (which allows you to auto-install sshd or mail server, for example), each time I made no changes, so the 3 selected default settings (the first option, Desktop Environment, and the last 2 options, laptop and... whatever the other one is, I don't remember) should all have been installed.
I didn't use the net installer, and I ran the installer offline because both laptops require non-free firmware and I couldn't figure out last week how to get the installer to find that firmware (on another USB stick). So once I got to the GNOME desktop the most recent time, I copied the WiFi chip's firmware .deb onto the laptop and did a 'dpkg -i', then did the same thing to get network-manager-gnome and its dependencies installed; and once I connected to our network I started an 'apt-get install gnome' to try to get the entire desktop environment installed (that also installed the programs that show up under System | Administration).
Is there anything important I might still be missing? Is there a list of installed-by-default packages that I could compare against say a 'dpkg -l'? Does this sound like some sort of known issue?
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Looking for the binutils for powerpc in squeeze.
Found a reference here: [URL] ....
But the file [URL] ... is missing, has this been removed or what?
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[code]...
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45GB ext3 /dev/sda3 - / Debian squeeze
[code]...
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Code: Select allSection "Device"
  Identifier "Intel Graphics"
  Driver   "intel"
  Option   "AccelMethod" "SNA"
  Option   "DRI"  "3"
  Option   "TearFree"  "true"
EndSection
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Code: Select all[Â Â 26.556] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[Â Â 26.556] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[Â Â 26.556] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[Â Â 26.556] (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[Â Â 26.616] (II) intel(0): SNA initialized with Haswell (gen7.5, gt2) backend
[Â Â 26.616] (==) intel(0): Backing store enabled
[Code] ....
First of all it still mentions the DRI2 driver, is this supposed to happen, or did something go wrong? Also it complains that it cannot find a file, which I can't figure out which package it belongs to, and taking a quick search around the interwebs hasn't produced anything useful...
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[Code].....
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Code:
ramdisk: incomplete write (3537 ! 5123)
write error
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Quote:
RAMDISK: incomplete write (XXXXX!= XXXXXX)
write error
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This topic began in the Debian Development forum here I have successfully completed both the install and the after installation configuration. I have a fully functional system on this little baby, inspite of the fact that wireless (Broadcom bcm4312), ethernet (Realtek) and sound were initially broken.
There is a lot of assistance out there on the web. In the previous thread, I was having trouble installing any debian on a usb stick. The issues that needed resolving were 1. Bad stick
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PS: Posted from that Dell Mini 9 running Debian Squeeze.
EDITED: Correction of typing errors.
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