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Bug#224699: debian-installer: expert mode bootparameter



Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist


From the debian-boot mailinglist:

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:32:55PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org> [2003-12-20 21:24]:
> > > Why do you ask for the debconf priority at the beginning?  I think it
> > > should just be "high" by default and people who want something lower can
> > > pass "DEBCONF_PRIORITY".  I guess/hope this is currently only asked for
> > > testing, and that it will be disabled later.  I chose "high".
> > 
> > I disagree, passing command line arguments is very painful when keyboard
> > layout is not qwerty.
> 
> I'd like to see the command like argument "expert" recognized and to
> mean "DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" (since this is really quite hard to
> type and remember).  In fact, it would be great if F2 or something
> like this would be "expert mode" and pass the DEBCONF_PRIORITY
> argument to the kernel.
> 

This bugreport should prevent that this nice feature request gets lost.


Geert Stappers

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