Instalation report: comments and suggestions

["Antonio A.A." <dax5@jazzfree.com>]

Hello,

I tested the 20040225 intaller. I still have the problem with 
framebuffer[1].

Comments:
- The question about retrying the DHCP is not very user friendly if he 
don't know what DHCP (that is a very technical thing) is.

- After that it does not ask if you want to setup the network manually, 
it directly ask for an IP. I wonder: what happend if the user is not 
connected to a network?

I forgot to connect the network cable. The message I got after setting 
up my network parameters was wrong (as wrong as the usual not 
informative win msgs ;-) ):
 1) It says "the specified Debian archive mirror..." I haven't 
specified anything yet.
 2) It was not the Debian archive failing. It was my fault of not 
connecting the cable!  Would it be possible to check if the network is 
working first?

Suggestions:
- Show the speed and percentage of actual files while donwloading (my 
network was slow and I thought the computer could have hunged)
- At password prompt write the tipical "*" when writing
- Use the user country to help choosing the mirror

[1] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200402/msg01593.html
(I'll try to investigate this problem if i can get some time)

Thanks very much for your work at Debian.

Regards,
  Antonio Arauzo A.