Michael Renner wrote:
> *) Lack of keymap selection: I chose "English/United states" at the first
> dialog because I loathe i18n'ed status/error messages. This apparently set
> also the keymap to us.
This will be fixed in the next beta.
> *) No choice to use manual IP setup when using the "net" install. I'm not
> completely sure about that, but I think after choosing the interface I
> wanted to use for installation it jumped straight to DHCP without
> prompting me if I rather want to use a manual configuration.
You can get the ability to do manual configuration if you boot with
DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium. Whether we should ask about it by default is
debatable, and you'll be asked about several other things that are
similarly grey in that mode..
> *) Misleading menu point description: After selecting the mirror where I
> wanted to pull the data from there was a point which was called something
> like "Scan for data from cdroms" or something like that, I can't really
> remember, which apparently scanned the cdroms for kernel modules and
> loaded the module for the scsi controller. Naming it "Probe for additional
> hardware" might be better (if this is the only thing it does, I don't
> really have a clue, please correct me on that one)
I forget what it was called in the beta, but it is currently called
"Load installer components from CD", which I think is clear. It's
followed by "Detect hardware".
> *) Partitioning warning when trying to create no boot/have boot being
> larger than $magic_limit: It might be superfluous but a general warning
> might be good for unwary users which use old pcs/sparcs since they will
> very likely have problems when trying to boot a kernel from partitions
> which exceed the 1024 cylinder boundary (old pcs and sparcs), or the
> various 8GB/32GB/etc. bios limitations on boards with "newer" bios
> versions (Pentium/Pentium II era, etc.)
Bleagh. :-)
> *) "Suboptimal" lilo config: Whereas I like short, not overcommented
> configs, the lilo config presented by the installer was a bit _too_ short.
> It lacked the (IMHO) obligatory prompt/timeout parameters (to pass
> additional flags while booting, etc), had a deprecated "install" line
> ('install=/boot/boot.b instead of 'install=text' or menu (which would be
> better)). Throwing in 'compact' speeds up booting too but might break
> things with 'old' computers IIRC.
I agree that this is suboptimal, and there are bugs about at least some
of what you mention.
> *) Missing "hostname" prompt: Maybe I overlooked it, but I think that
> there was no such dialog box during the installation.
If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls
back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs more
work still, but in the daily builds you will be prompted for a hostname
after you reboot if the installer didn't set one.
> *) Missing prompt for additional apt ressources (contrib, non-free,
> non-us).
This is intentional. non-us is dead, non-free is not part of debian, and
contrib is 90% useless without non-free. We'd prefer that the few users
who need that stuff manually add entries for it like they do for other
extra-Debian apt sources.
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see shy jo
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