Bug#325334: Debian PowerPC Installation Bug Report

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:10:02PM -0400, Matthieu Lalonde wrote:
> Initial boot worked:            [O]
> Configure network HW:    [O]
> Config network:                 [O]
> Detect CD:                        [ ]
> Load installer modules:     [O]
> Detect hard drives:           [O]
> Partition hard drives:         [O]
> Create file systems:          [O]
> Mount partitions:               [O]
> Install base system:         [X]
> Install boot loader:            [ ]
> Reboot:                             [ ]
> 
> Comments/Problems:
>     When I select the default Desktop Workstation packages, it seems  
> like the kdegraphics meta-package is broken. Indeed it reports a  
> dependency error and says the package is broken. Same thing if I  
> don't install KDE during the first installation and then try to add  
> it manually using apt-get. I am using http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/  
> stable main as a source. But I have tried other mirror which seem to  
> have the same problem.

I have never been asked about desktop or kde or anything until after the
reboot (except when in expert mode I selected the module to do the
base-config from stage one of the installer which really didn't work at
all at that time).  Just using the plain default normal path through the
installer should not ask about desktop until after rebooting has already
been done.  I think many of the optional modules in expert mode are
broken and often completely unnecesary.

Len Sorensen