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Bug#403904: Install went mostly fine, some improvements possible



> - Somewhere after the DHCP process, the cursor was changed into a 
> text-shape (the I-like thing).  It didn't change back into the arrow 
> after that.  That was slightly annoying, because for this cursor it 
> isn't completely clear where the "hot-spot" is.  This may have to do 
> with me pressing back several times to redo the DHCP-configuration.


This is a known problem with the graphical installer. Will probably
not be fixed for etch.

> 
> - I chose "Dutch" as a language for the install.  During the 
> installation it asked me several times about which 
> wordlist/ispell-dictionary should be the default (adding one option each 

Known problem which is under investigation and turned out to be a
complex problem with the graphical frontend.

> - After the install was complete, X only started in 640x480 (I think).  
> I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, used the default answer for all 
> options (well, I set the mouse device to /dev/gpmdata, but that 
> shouldn't matter), and then restarted it.  It used 1280x1024 then (which 
> is what I'd expect with my hardware).  "Normal" users can't be expected 
> to know what dpkg-reconfigure is IMO, let alone decide to use it 
> without a hint. ;-)

This is more a problem with X config than a direct problem in the
installer indeed.





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