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Re: d-i feedback



On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:15:57PM +0100, rajkumars@asianetindia.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed Sarge, Nov-17 (unofficial) and noticed a few problems,
> though not any thing major. 
Feedback is always welcome.

> 
> 1. Their is no way to skip lilo installation, or to add the configs to
> another harddisk's boot config. I have 2 hard disk, one my production
> and second on which I was using for testing. BIOS is configured to boot
> from the first hdd, using grub. Idealy it should have added this config
> to my primary hdd, but atleast I should have an option to skip lilo
> installation so that later I can add to the grub in primary hdd. 
> 
> btw, why is grub not included in d-i?
It is includeded but not visible by default.
If you activate it, you can the other things also.

> 
> 2. d-i do not asks if I want to use a static ip or dhcp.
> It checks for dhcp first and then waits for options from where
> I select configure network manually.
Is handled more properly in recent versions.

> 
> 3. When choosing CD installation, the /cdrom is not mounted automatically.
> The reason is that fstab has wrong entries. the entry in fstab for
> /cdrom is /dev/hdc, while it should have been /dev/sr0.
> Mounting /dev/sr0 from a second console and
> hitting enter in the first console prompt solves this problem.
Will be reported as bug.

> 
> Last but not the least, a big thanks from me to all d-i developers
> for all your hard  work :)
thanks

> 
> raj

Geert Stappers

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