Package: debian-installer This bugreport is to prevent the IMHO usefull information to get lost. Cheers Geert Stappers ----- Forwarded message from Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> ----- From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Install feedback Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:18:55 +0900 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i Hi, I used the sarge image to install Debian on my new laptop and would like to give you some feedback about that experience. Installing is the kind of thing i usually don't do, Debian being updateable, except on such occasions (i.e. new PC). First, i must say i was impressed by the installation. The installer is really neat and unpainful. A great load of improvements have been made since last time i installed a Debian system. So here are a few feelings about my experience. - The order of the keymap list in the "select a keyboard layout" screen is randomish, and it makes it harder to find what we look for... - The guided partitioning made a 148MB /. It's too tight. After the install, I wanted to install a new kernel... after that install, the space left on device was 0 (well, actually 4MB of reserved space, which is not a whole lot)... - I was kinda disappointed by the 500MB partition for /tmp. Why not just use tmpfs ? - And 500MB swap for 768MB RAM could be problematic (especially if one wants to use software suspend) - When choosing mount points for a partition, it would be better to hide the mount points already configured... - When creating partitions, the sequence for mount points is /, /home, /tmp... that's kinda weird... first, i'd have expected /usr or /var before /home, and swap to come instead of /tmp. - When choosing apt sources and using the http ones, i've been asked twice for an http proxy... Now, on the after-install side. (Note: I used linux26 install, and chose the desktop environment) - acpid didn't get installed. I'd have expected it to be there, especially for a laptop (why not adding a laptop task ?). - alsa-base didn't get installed, which is kinda required for proper alsa configuration (including hotplug blacklists and so on), especially with a 2.6 kernel, which includes alsa, contrary to 2.4. - Both discover and hotplug got installed, making hotplug blacklists obsolete... and sound not working. discover was loading the i810_audio, while hotplug wouldn't have (it is blacklisted by alsa-base). Is there any particular reason to use both ? Apart from that and the usual xfree configuration problems (keyboard layout being us instead of whatever was configured earlier, refresh rates being asked while i have no clue of what they are (is it relevant on LCD, anyway ??)), everything went fine. Mike PS: Please Cc me, i'm not subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org ----- End forwarded message -----
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