Michael Banck wrote: > 1. It was previously suggested to rename the inital boot dialog, like > s/press Return to boot/press Return to install Debian/ or something Feel free to hack syslinux's asm code to allow this as some kind of syslinux.cfg parameter.. > 2. If I don't have a network cable plugged in, I get asked for an IP > address. It's possible to go back and then select 'No network > configuration' (or something), but having a button like 'Continue > without configuring the network' right there intially would be better. > Though that's probably i) not easy with debconf and ii) too late for > sarge anyway Assuming mii-diag determined this, it sounds like bug #264476 which has just been fixed. > 3. As it wasn't immediatly obvious how to reformat a partition with > partman, I (perhaps foolishly) decided to delete and re-create /dev/hda6 > (on which some other ext2 previously existed). However, the format > dialog and subsequent dialogs talked about /dev/hda9 being > created/written to, which made me a bit nervous. I finally figured out > that partman renumbered the devices (see above partition listing), > adding /dev/hda9 at the place of the former /dev/hda6 but calling it > /dev/hda9. Oh well, that was a bit unsuspected and I had to change the > /etc/fstab of my other partition to fix it. If it is possible the > partition numbering should be preserved IMHO. Cloning to partman for this. > 5. On reboot, during the bootup sequence, the framebuffer switched to a > different font which yielded about twice as many lines on the console > (to my liking). However, as soon as base-config started (or perhaps > shortly before), the console became totally corrupted and scrambled. It > was possible to figure out that I was looking at the base-config screen > and changing virtual consoles worked, but I was not able to read > anything. > > This was with the default 2.4 kernel. I later reinstalled passing > 'kernel26' to d-i, which worked fine (though the console font stayed at > the intial size/number of lines) What language were you installing in? -- see shy jo
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