some remarks on gtk-debian-installer (i386)
Hi all
I gave gtk-installer for i386 some tries and I think it is really great
for an "alpha"
stage software. I would just like to report a few remarks (which I was not
quite sure whether could be filed as "bugs"). Here it goes:
1) In the first place after reaching the stage of "selecting software"
(appearing as "participating in the "popularity-contest" step) I chose
to install Desktop and some other packages and I realised that their
number was too large to wait to be downloaded. So I thought I could
cancel and return to the main
menu, proceeding to the next step (I think the bootloader installation).
But then I found out that
there was no "Back" option at that stage, contrary to what happens for
all the steps that I have taken
until then. I tried and managed to stop the process of downloading
manually from the console (tty2)
but then the bootloader (GRUB) refused to install correctly! Eventually
I rebooted the system in order to
repeat the installation.
2) So i booted again and i thought "why not using the existing
partitions?" to save some time!
And going a step further, i thought why not using the existing data in
those partitions, so that I could
save even more time! But then I noticed that the installation of the
bootloader was hanging again.
In fact this is a behavior that I have encountered with debian-installer
ever since, Namely if I am
reusing existing data on existing partitions the installation simply
does not go through. I thought that
the problem may had been resolved somehow. To be honest, I am not sure
how much of a problem
is this, ie If it is a "bug" or a "feature" of the installer (I can
understand that reusing say data in /var/lib/dpkg
could be the source of potential conflicts and so on). But then the
question is "why is the option of keeping
the existing data be explicitly offered in the first place"?
3). I have to add that I was running the installer using the Greek
locale, so I noticed that after making the tasksel package selection
stop (from the shell) I was getting back to the main menu only that now
it was the default english one!
So basically these are my points. Apart from that, the
gtk-debian-installer is really amazing piece of software. People who
have seen it really love it. I suppose that in the process of time and
as we are getting closer to final release these issues will have been
resolved!
keep up the excellent job!
emmanuel galatoulas
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