Bug#246357: newbie installation report
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:19:58PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * The testpersonen selected only the task "Desktop Environment" (or at
> least: I didn't see him selecting anything else, but was a little
> bit distracted at this point). I wonder why libc6-dev, gcc, g++ and
> such stuff got installed.
They are of Priority: standard and thus get installed by tasksel in
addition to the selected tasks by default.
I wonder whether there should be an explicit 'standard' task, but I
guess we can live with the Status Quo for Sarge.
> * While installing all the packages, an error occured (I didn't see it long
> enough, since it got overwriten by a blue/red error screen). I think it a KDE
> file was in two different packages - this problem seems to be coused by KDE
> 3.2.2 packages going to testing, while most are still on 3.1.5. However: This
> error dropped him back to the debian-installer main menu.
> Before the testperson startet the installation, I told him "if you are
> unsure, press enter", and so he did, continuing the instalaltion of the
> packages. After he choosed "install packages" in the main menu several times,
> he got it, but he was I think the debconf prioritie has been changed after
> the first problem, since he got asked much more questions than usal.
> However, he worked it out and got it installed.
Yes, the debconf priority gets lowered to 'medium' when an error occurs.
At least that's the case for d-i, but I think base-config handles it
like this as well.
> * During all the apt-get activitie, he wished to see, how much to do was left.
> Some Kind of progress bar, or a small "installing Package x of 614" would be
> nice.
Of course, the apt-get output should be fully debconfiscated =)
Well, I guess we just need something to improve on after Sarge and
beautifying this seems like a major chunk of work.
Michael
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