Bug#352750: Success on third try, minor glitches
Ok, so I tried a third time, redownloading the image
(debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso / 14-Feb-2006 01:10 / 89M). This
time I checked not only the image's MD5 but that of the burned data as
well, just to be sure. Also I dded a few MB of zeros over the start of
the target disk.
For whatever reason, this time everything went as planned. Just a few
minor things, most likely related to the merging of d-i and
base-config:
- the timezone configurator suggests the tz Europe/Vienna based on the
country I selected, which is correct. However there's no way to
correct the guess if it's wrong - there's just "back" (to the menu)
and "continue" (thus accepting it). Earlier installers had "Is this
correct? yes / no / back"
- the package manager configuration did not ask for additional sources
but just used the mirror for the base install. Earlier installers
allowed to select additional mirrors / CDs. (Of course I can edit the
sources.list on the second console, but still.)
- there's no choice to start dselect / aptitude / tasksel anymore, it
just starts tasksel. Just deselecting all tasks doesn't help much as
it installed a few packages anyway. Spellchecking stuff AFAICS. At
least for expert mode I'd like more control here.
- baseconfig choked a bit: it was looking for /cdrom/dists/sid, but
the symlinks on the CD use unstable as the name. Can be fixed on the
console.
C.
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