Bug#285778: Fwd: Re: [RC2 i386 floppy] Should handle the lack of translations on the floppies better

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

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Subject: Re: [RC2 i386 floppy] Should handle the lack of translations on 
the floppies better
Date: Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:34
From: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>
To: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Frans Pop wrote:
> Floppy installation currently does not support installing in other
> languages than English.

OK, seems reasonable because of floppy size.

> However, I agree with you that the current installation using floppies
> is confusing:
> - you do get the languagechooser dialog allowing you to select other
>  languages than English
> - if you do, the next dialog for country selection will show country
> codes instead of country names

I did not noticed that.

> - after additional modules have been loaded from drivers floppy and CD,
>  there is a very strange mixture of languages:
>  - some dialogs will show a translated title and untranslated contents
>  - some menu choices in the main menu are translated (those loaded from
>    the cd-drivers floppy and the CD), while others are not (those
> loaded from the root floppy)
>
> However, I can not confirm that earlier choices are "lost" after the
> installer loads additional modules from CD.

The only thing I noticed was that my keyboard went back to English
(I'm not even sure whether I gad a German keyboard after selecting it -
  perhaps I never typed a German keyboard specific key until I inserted
  the CD.)

IMHO, this all is no real issue because people who are able to handle
floppy installs are able to work around this.  I just wanted to report
this to people who might be interested ...

> AFAIK DMA is enabled by default. See /proc/ide/hdX/settings (where hdX
> is your hard disk).

I'll check this.

Kind regards

        Andreas.
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