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Bug#238750: categorising installation report



> * When I have selected one http mirror the installation routine moves along
> to the software selection without asking whether I want to add an additional
> mirror. This function existed in Beta2 of the installer.

That was a bug in beta2. Belive me, it confuses more people than it helps.

> * A hint about Lilo is displayed that it has to be executed before using it,
> but I already installed GRUB. Wouldn't it be better to remove this hint?

Yes, apparently that change didn't quite happen in time for beta 3, it seems to
be fixed in the archive however.

> * At the selection of the desired X server driver there is a wrong(?)
> preselection, namely vesa. Knoppix and SuSE Linux both recommend the savage driver.
> 
> * After Restart one has a pleasant surprise: The X-server configuration
> didn't work. Modifying of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 was necessary. I had/wanted to
> change the default colour depth from 24 to 16 and for each colour depth the
> resolution from a maximum of 800x600 to 1024x768.
> * Additionaly there was a wrong keyboard layout chosen. The layout was us,
> pc104, xfree86, but I wanted de, nodeadkeys, pc105, xfree86. After these
> modifications everything worked just fine.

These are bugs in X and have been cloned off and sent to the maintainer 
of X. You will get separate notifications if these bugs are closed.

> * Another problem is that there exist no entries for the cdrom and the
> floppy drive in the /etc/fstab. There exist the folders /floppy and /cdrom why
> enter the fstab entries automatically?

This is a known bug in beta 3 of the installer.

> * Another thing was missing, which I already noticed in Beta2: There is no
> questin whether someone would like to turn of pcmcia when updating. This was
> and is the case for the english installation. The German installation from
> Beta2 did ask this question. You can manually configure this by dpkg-reconfigure
> pcmcia-cs.

We shouldn't install pcmcia-cs unless it's needed, but in beta3, we always
install it. This has already been fixed in CVS.

> * By the way: Where is /var/log/boot?

Unfortunatly bootlogd is not enabled by default anymore. You can turn 
it back on by editing /etc/default/bootlogd.

> * And last there is no questions about locales (dpkg-reconfigure locales).
> So you have to add locales by yourself and choose your standard locale (in
> case you wanted UTF8 or something like that) for example.

Didn't the installer use the locale matching the language you chose at the very
beginning of the install? It should be all set up in /etc/locale.gen for you.

-- 
see shy jo

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