On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 08:07:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Bugreport #283318: <snip/> > > - There are often empty "blue screens" for a more or less lasting time > > during the installation (e.g. between partitioning and installing > > the base system). > > This may not be a problem on a fast machine. But on a slower machine > > this may give the impression of a crashed installation, especially > > for windows users. > > If the system has to do something there should be a message or a > > progress bar on the screen, but not an empty screen. > > > Most of these have been hunted down (several D-I developers work with > vmware or qemu andthus also have slow machines). > > Those which remain are either unknown or quite hard to fill in with > something..:-) > > If you have the opportunity to restart this install, please note > exactly when such screens appear. You mention one between the > partitioning step and the base system install : was it after all > filesystems creation and before the first progress bar of the base > system install? On Intel(tm) Pentium(tm) IV(public domain) having 3 GHz clock and plenty of RAM, I did expirence the same "strange" delay. The woody installer had the "calculating next step" "pop up", what about to re-introduce it between f.s. creation and base install? Cheers Geert Stappers
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