Bug#243233: installation report (d-i 20040408)
* Bruno Majewski <bruno@pubnix.qc.ca> [2004-04-11 18:28]:
> (0) Bravo for the use of kernel 2.4.25 and XF86 4.3: at least Debian
The new images use 2.4.26 now.
Can you please get a new image from
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and tell me which
of the issues you reported have been fixed.
> (1) my tv card, an ATI TV WONDER/VE was not detected, nor was the
> related kernel module loaded.
Has this been fixed?
> (2) the PCMCIA kernel modules were still loaded. I had to remove those
> two modules manually (pcmcia-cs & kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386).
> Considering new the installer is supposed to automatically detect hardware,
This should be fixed; can you confirm?
> (3) Partitioning: because the installer gives you only two choices
> (taking over the whole hard disk or letting you edit the partition table
> manually), I had to go the manual route to make sure my FAT32 partition did
> not get deleted. I wonder if a third choice would not have been possible,
> to let me keep my FAT32 partition and take over the rest automagically.
Well, if you had a FAT partition and then free space, you'd get a 3rd
option saying "use the free disk space".
> (3.1) the 4 options ("Finish partitioning and write changes to disk",
> "Automatically partition a drive", "Undo changes to partitions" &
> "Configure the Logical Volume Manager") should be with the two buttons at
> the bottom ("Go back" & "Continue") and not be visually with the partition
> table. In fact they should be *the bottom menu* that would somehow be like
> this: "Go back", "Finish partitioning..." (the new "Continue"),
> "Automatically...", "Undo..." and "Configure the...". And there should be
> a visual clue, a frame, a scrollable (sp?) list delimiting the partition
> table.
I'll forward these comments to the author of the partitioning tool.
> (3.1.1) Pray tell, what do the little symbols (smiley, lightning) in that
> screen do mean, exactly?
There's a help menu... but yes, I admit it's not very obvious what
they mean.
> (4) There should have been an explicit option to have the NIC
> configured via DHCP (automatically) or via a static address (manually). We
It tried DHCP automatically, and when that fails give you the option
to configure a static address.
> (6) After the initial reboot, during "part two" of the install, tasksel
> asks me how I want to configure my machine. The only way to have just an
> FTP & telnet server (maybe I should have used ssh...), I have to select
> "conventional Unix server" and get Apache (& more?) in the process. What if
> I do not want Apache et al and just want FTP & telnet/ssh servers? Why
> can't I do a sub-selection?
The idea of taskel is to be very simple to use for new users. If you
want tigther control over what is being installed, please use
apititude.
> (7) The "cdrom" and "audio" groups should have been correctly
> configured by d-i so that the "normal user (s)" could hear music. Not
> everyone would know about this (I knew this because of previous experiences
This is done now.
> (8) the d-i, after detecting my hardware, should have detected that my
> motherboard can initiate a full shutdown of the machine and should have
> installed apmd. I had to do this manually for me just to have to type
> "shutdown -h now" and have my machine power off by itself.
Do you know how to find out whether a machine has this capability?
> (9) In tasksel, I did not select a graphical DE because I wanted to
> install KDE 3.2.1... Nonetheless, I feel that both read-edid and mdetect
> should have been loaded and set up so that my subsequent set up of XF86
> could have been fully automated.
Well, equally you could argue that debian-installer should not install
these packages, because they are not needed, e.g. on servers.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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