Quoting Eugen Dedu (Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr): > And businesscard? Can this info be put on > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer? It takes only 2-3 lines, but > avoid all confusion (I imagine that many people put this question)... I > can write myself these sentences if you wish. Well, the devel/d-i page assumes that ppl know what are the various images. After all, these are *development* pages. If I'm correct, businesscard/netinst are documented on cdimage.debian.org so I would not see any need to redocument this in the D-I pages. Maybe put a link... After our messages, I also biefly looked in the D-I manual (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual) for a reference...but didn't find one..... As I looked *briefly*, that doesn't really mean anything..:) > > Now, pursuing the installation: > > - In modules to load, live-installer (Install the base system) seems > bizarre. In fact, I AM installing the base system, so why proposing this > as module? I imagine live-installer means another thing, I propose to > explain better what is it. The "modules to load" part is meant for *special* installs. This is why it is not shown but in expert mode (did you use "expert" to boot). So, in short, you shouldn't pick a D-I module to load, *except if you have some specific needs*. > > - In modules to load, I have selected: eject-udeb, irda, cdrom-checker. > After configure the clock, it goes back to "Detect and mount CD-ROM" > instead of choosing the next item in the menu. Upon ENTER, it says that > "The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which cannot be used for installation..." > So I go myself after "Configure the clock", i.e. to "Detect disks". After > that, it goes back again to "Detect and > mount CD-ROM" and I manually change again to the item after "Detect disks". That's expected. > > - The laptop has 2GB of memory, so it creates 4GB swap. This is a > kernel question, but is it really necessary to have 4GB of swap? 2GB of > memory is already sufficient to execute 2 linux systems in > parallel :o) My previous laptop had 512MB of RAM, and 512MB RAM + 1GB swap > it is still less than 2GB of memory of current laptop. This has been discussed in the past and I thought we reverted this "swap==double of physical memory" setting. Dunno in what conditions this was changed...or not. --
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