Bug#280328: [i386][20041029][netinst] PPP problems
clone 280328 -1
reassign 280328 pppconfig
retitle 280328 Several usability issues during a German install
reassign -1 debian-installer
retitle -1 Please document the use of persist option in pppconfig for long download times
thanks
This is from an installation report received by the d-i team. The
install report was successful with several remarks about the use of
pppconfig.
As we don't often have such usability reports for pppconfig, I thought
it would be useful for the pppconfig package maintainer to get this.
> Problems:
> In 2-nd stage pppconfig has several problems:
> 1) In "main menu" ("Hauptmenü") the text is displayed in englisch, although
> title and options are displayed correctly in german.
> I looked at the de.po file (271), but in there it's correctly translated!!
IIRC, the german translation has one fuzzy string ; though. So,
depending on the way the i18n is made, a side effect may be having
some English here and there.
>
> 2) The english text in "main menu" is not fully displayed. It stops after
> "...
> .Hit ENTER to select an", so you don't know what to select.
> Don't know if this is related to 1)
>
> 3) While setting up "provider" it didn't auto detect my analog modem "ELSA
> Microlink Office" on /dev/ttyS0. So I had to select it myself.
>
> 4) While setting advanced options, each option has a description, which is
> cut
> off (==unreadable). But there is plenty of whitespace displayed before.
> Don't know, if this is a problem with debconf?
>
> 5) Back in "main menu", after setting up "provider", there is no "Change" or
> "Delete" option to choos from. So if you made a mistake, you can't correct
> it.
> Instead you have to "Create" a new configuration under another name.
> Note: After complete installation you get these two options when running
> pppconfig!
The remaining pertains to d-i documentation. Please note, however,
that choosing the desktop task when doing a PPP install is discouraged
because the size of the download of course....Maybe the documentation
should mention this and recommend the use of full CD's
>
>
> 6) Just to test it, I selected "Desktop" in tasksel, and downloaded it via
> analog modem. It took ~31 hours to download(hence the above date range ;-)
> Becaus of this long time, my provider diconnected my connection 2 times.
> In Germany at least this forced disconnection is enforced by law!
>
> The problem is, that I didn't get an error message on first console.
> base-config just throws me to it's base menu with the next step selected.
> So I had to select "package selection and installation" ("Pakete auswählen
> und installieren") again, to continue the download, after using pon again.
>
> The only way, to prevent this, would be to set the advanced option "persist"
> while configuring PPP in pppconf. But this is not documented in the install
> manual under "7.2.3 Setting Up PPP" at all.
>
>
> 7) Shouldn't I've got the K7 flavour of the kernel?
>
> Thanks for this lovely installer!
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