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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