Bug#387381: Instllation Report for New Debian Installer on WinXP SP2 + VMware 5.5.1
Sorry for very late reply.
Your answer was basically satisfactory for me, though I'd still like
to give comments on two points.
> > * It is strange for me that both 2.6.16-2-686 and 2.6-686 are presented
> > as choice for the kernel to be installed, since they seem exactly the
> > same (i.e. both are linux-image-2.6.16-2-686).
>
> The question is asked only in expert installs. We want expert ppl to
> be able to choose all avail kernels....and "2.6-686" is slightly
> different s this is a virtual package.
I now see the difference between 2.6-686 and 2.6.16-2-686, but it would
be great to indicate in the installer that 2.6-686 is a virtual package,
so expert users but not familiar to the Debian system easily understand
the difference between the two packages. I think I'm somewhat familiar
to Debian but I haven't noticed that 2.6-686 is a virtual package.
> > * It would be better if prompt is made to ask whether the user wants to
> > keep (or remove) apt-line for CD-ROM installation.
>
> I'm not sure that I understand this one suggestion.
Unless manually edited, /etc/apt/sources.list contains an apt-line for
retrieving packages from CD-ROM. Hence sometimes apt-get demands me to
insert the Debian CD into the drive on package installation, even though
I'd like to have everything downloaded from the server.
It is possible to have every package retrieved via network by editing
the file sources.list manually, but I wish to have such settings made
automatically by the base system installer.
Best regards,
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Izumi, Yusuke / yuizumi@y5i.org
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