Re: English localization
> #. Type: select
> #. Description
> msgid ""
> "Please choose the interface you want to configure. All currently detected "
> "interfaces on your system are shown below. Please choose the type of your "
> "primary network interface. This interface will be used for installing the "
> "Debian system (via NFS or HTTP)."
> msgstr ""
>
> The term 'interface' is rather technical and obscure to newbies (I
> remember going 'what the *&$* is an interface?'), and no synonym or
> definition is given. Is there some way to make this clearer? This
> occurs elsewhere as well. Perhaps "interface (networking card)" or
> "type of network interface (connection)" or something????
Could you please report this against netcfg ?
I think we shouldn't correct this now, as this *will* impact
translations.
However, your remark is interesting and we probably need to change
this.
> This message has some other problems: Are you choosing the interface
> you want to configure, or the *type* of your primary network interface?
> It apparently asks you to do both in one message.
>
> #. Type: error
> #. Description
> msgid ""
> "Please check the error log on the third console or /var/log/messages for "
> "more information."
> msgstr ""
>
> In keeping with the other messages which discuss things like this, it
> should probably say "...on the third console (ALT-F3) or..."
> or something similar telling how to get the third console (if it's at
> all straightforward on the architecture this message is for).
Definitely right. This impacts yaboot-installer and lvmcfg. Can you
report a bug against these ?
>
> #. Type: boolean
> #. Description
> msgid ""
> "The device ${device} seems to be an already low-level formatted disk.
> If the "
> "disk has not been used for Linux 2.4 before, formatting it now is "
> "recommended."
> msgstr ""
>
> Why mention 2.4 specifically??
No idea....:-)
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