Bug#450836: installation-reports: Does not allow ethernet over firewire

Package: installation-reports
severity: important

I installed a PowerBook G4 with a recent netinst: -rw-r--r-- 1 helge helge 227418112 2007-10-30 22:35 debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso

md5sum:
e9495d1a6997f9fc8aa7ad85df67a365 debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso

(This is a 7447A, altivec supported PowerPC machine).

The following major issues appeared:

A)No eth1394 driver for ethernet over firewire. I routinely use this   and actually do not have a network cable arount ATM, so it is the   only way to connect (and my main system proxies connections via   firewire into the internet just fine).

  During installation, I do not see the network interfaces for   firewire, nor do I find the modules, essentially breaking the   netinst idea. I do see the device on my main system in the logs, so   the connection is fine). After install, I see that   # CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

  I definitly installed on PPC via firewire before, but probably   pre-sarge. And at least up to 2.6.19.2 this worked fine (tried with   various kernels, both Debian and self rolled ones). Since firewire   is very popular on PPC (at least on apple machines) I see no reason   not to support it, especially since this worked before (i.e. this is   a regression).

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B)After setting up crypto and lvm volumes, I choose by accident one of   the crypto volumes and was told, this does not work and I could choose   "back" or "continue". I chose "back" and the installer hung. After Ctrl-C   I was in the main menu (and in english[1]). Choosing "Partitioning disks"   again, the progress bar with "Starting up the partitioner" hung at 52%   (showing "Please wait"). Ctrl-C did not work now, so I rebootet.

C)Second attempt, now all partitions properly created (still present on disk),   but forgot to assign mount points for crypted volumes. I said "yes" to return   to the partitioning, but after creating of the file systems, I was dropped on   the main menu (I had returned earlier when I missed to create a New World   boot partition)

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