Method: CD install in vmware, from Manty's CD images, circa 16 Dec. Root Device: 300 mb IDE virtual disk Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: CD images are still not using the new syslinux boot and help screens. The debconf priority selection thing is *ugly*. (See thread.) The correct keyboard was the default in the keyboard chooser. The new netcfg is not on this image yet, dhcp failed (vmware problem?), manual config succeeded. choose-mirror has proper English country names now, not ugly country codes. On the other hand, it's still fairly useless, since this was a netinst CD, and I didn't need to use a mirror, and base-config still repeats the questions. The distribution selection used virtual release names, not code names, and worked ok. On boot I notice a "warning: can't open /etc/mtab: no such file or directory". Perhaps d-i should touch /etc/mtab to avoid this. I wonder if it's really a good idea to use "auto" as the type for / in /etc/fstab. This leads to scarey messages from the kernel as various filesystems before reiserfs fail. base-config is not yet 2.00 on the CD image so still has many problems. -- see shy jo
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