Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 06:41:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 04 April 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
> > There are some other minor issues below though:
> >
> > goodbye-microsoft.com
> > wait for grub2 (seems slower than grub1)
>
> Yes, I've seen that too in Virtualbox. It takes a huge amount of time and
> you can actually see the display being "assembled".
> /me needs to file a BR about that.
Please go ahead, a reminder will help. Some parts of update-grub (grub-probe
invokations) are clearly sub-optimal and need to be adjusted.
> > choose en_AU as an additional language - seems that en_AU.iso88591 got
> > preseeded from debian.exe?
>
> If that is true, it would IMO be a pretty serious bug in win32-loader as
> Debian is supposed to be installed using UTF-8 locales by default.
>
> Robert: can you please look into this?
Sounds strange. Legacy encodings are never (intentionally) preseeded by
win32-loader.
Paul, could you paste the debian-installer/locale lines in your
preseed.cfg? (/preseed.cfg in the installer system)
--
Robert Millan
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