Antonio A.A. wrote: > - 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. I've clarified it a bit. > - 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? If you are not connected to a network, then you should not be using this netinst CD, as you will get a minimal debian install and have no good way to add more packages to it. > 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? AFAIK this is due to a bug that we have fixed a few days ago. > Suggestions: > - Show the speed and percentage of actual files while donwloading (my > network was slow and I thought the computer could have hunged) This would be nice indeed. > - At password prompt write the tipical "*" when writing That is not very secure. > - Use the user country to help choosing the mirror Already done. -- see shy jo
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