Bug#253731: test-candidate-1: linux26: some cosmetic and usability problems
Package: installation-reports
Severity: minor
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: test candidate 1
uname -a: machine isn't booted up right now, but it's running 2.6.6-k7 from sarge
Date: 2004/6/5? +/- a couple days
Method: booted netinst CD, net install from an up-to-date local mirror.
Machine: Athlon T-bird 1200MHz, A7V133 rev 1.05 mobo, BIOS 1010beta.
usb keyboard, ps/2 mouse.
Root Device: 1 80GB IDE hard drive
Root Size/partition table: 10GB root, rest is an LVM physical
volume with logical volumes for swap, /home and /usr/local
Output of lspci and lspci -n:
not interesting, except for a Radeon 7200 video card.
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]
Comments/Problems:
LVM install with linux26 kernel worked great. I was really impressed that
it all worked :) I'm glad cfdisk is included, so you don't have to use
those menus to partition the disk. I love that the installer knows about
LVM. nice job :)
udhcpc from a late-May daily build failed, but dhclient in this release
worked. :)
I don't remember if this was while the installer was running, or only after
the reboot, but the dialog boxes looked funny. Instead of being surrounded
by lines, the boundary character looked like CE, but squished into one
character. fb or vga font problem?
In tasksel, the cursor flashes under task tickboxes even when I've tabbed
to <Finish> or <Task Info>. This makes it non-obvious what's going to
happen when you press return, but it's purely a cosmetic problem.
In the mirror-selection, the option to enter a hostname should be more
prominent. Maybe outside the list, as a separate button?
After selecting a mirror, it should prompt you for another one, so you can
get a non-US source too. (Or maybe it's best to keep things simple and
avoid not-totally-necessary questions?)
The problems in my previous report about typos and missing ipv6 /etc/hosts
entries still apply to the test candidate 1. I won't repeat myself, so see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253724
Configuring X wasn't much better this time. In fact it was worse, because
I installed some font packages which apparently provided fonts that got used
by default (e.g. by konqueror), but didn't have glyphs for all the
characters. (I think '/' or '-' was missing). Things were ok after I
removed ttf-dustin. I hate messing with fonts, so there's probably nothing
wrong with dustin's fonts, just the way they were getting used...
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