Alexander Biedermann wrote: > Debian-installer-version: <Fill in date and from where you got the image> > uname -a: <The result of running uname -a on a shell prompt> > Date: <Date and time of the install> > Method: <How did you install? What did you boot off? If network > install, from where? Proxied?> > > Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> > Processor: > Memory: > Root Device: <IDE? SCSI? Name of device?> > Root Size/partition table: <Feel free to paste the full partition > table, with notes on which partitions are mounted where.> > Output of lspci and lspci -n: We didn't put the above things in the report to be cute, it's impossible to accuratly deal with most of your install report without them. > 1) Installer shoud tell user that there are many options to install from the > beginning and not say "for help press F1" and hide a lot of important > possibilities in some F1 options that have to be entered manually at > "boot:"! There are over 4 pages of options, they cannot all be displayed on one page. I don't buy it that we're "hiding" anything. > 2) The installer doesn´t accept the same password for root and user - that´s > OK I've used the same password for root and a normal user several times, you're mistaken. > but > when done so, the installer just throws the installation process back two > steps without any comment! Sounds more like you misentered the user's password the second time. But if so you would have been told you'd done that. Without the instalation log you didn't include, I cannot speculate more. > 3) the configuration of apt only works once! Going back and add sources is > not possible!!! The installer jumps over the process to add sources and asks > again for software packages (desktop, server, and so on...) I can only guess since you didn't tell us what version of the installer you used or what version of Debian you installed, but this sounds like #278566, which only affected installs of unstable, not sarge. > 4) the detection of grafik and display, mouse and so on does not work - for > the display resolution is not made properly. And the user has to add too > many informations, that may not be easy to give. This information is useless without any information about your hardware. > 5) I would have expected a functioning gnome after installation - that did > not work as well. "did not work" does not constitute a bug report. -- see shy jo
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