Bug#362028: New Debian installer report
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:40, Gene Lake wrote:
> Everything went well except the install of GRUB to the root partition.
> I have had this problem installing GRUB with every Debian install I've
> done (using the new installer). The initial attempt always fails. I
> can go back and re-select 'install GRUB' and it will work fine the
> second time...installs fine.
I'll answer to this issue in a separate mail.
> I would like to see a change on the 'Install the base packages' page.
> I would like to see more information shown as to what is going
> on...info such as is shown when using 'wget' or 'apt-get'...ie...name
> of package, # of bytes in the package, # of bytes downloaded as the
> download proceeds, and the speed of the download.
This is currently not possible as the package that the installer calls to
install the base system does not provide that information.
> I do like the fact that the 'Install the base packages' routine is
> downloading from the internet rather than the CD...getting the latest
> packages.
Well, that is both a bug and a feature.
It's a bug because for daily/weekly builds netinst and full CD's the CD is
currently completely ignored. The cause for this has been identified and
rectified.
It's a feature because you can indeed have the installer use both the CD
and a mirror as source. It should then take packages that have not been
updated from the CD and those that have from the mirror.
Thanks for your report,
FJP
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