Re: debian-installer
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:49:24AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Robert: Could you provide a bit longer description with the "auto" option
> in grub?
It just mirrors the same boot options offered by the official installer
(except "rescue" which doesn't make much sense in this context).
The only differences are:
- "auto" is the default
- in graphical mode, the GRUB menu is hidden, with a 0 timeout
(i.e. you have ~1s to press ESC if you want to activate it)
> Running at critical priority is normally really only used for
> preseeded installations, although I can see the attraction of using it
> with goodbye-MS...
Yes, I felt like it was quite important to ask the very least questions
possible for the kind of unexperienced users I'm targetting here.
However, when I took this decision...
> Back to Brian and the log you provided...
>
> Jan 29 09:39:13 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selected
> Here I can see you selected English/Australia.
>
> Jan 29 09:39:39 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'ethdetect' selected
> Jan 29 09:39:41 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'netcfg' selected
> Network configuration seems to have gone fine.
>
> Jan 29 09:39:47 main-menu[1135]: INFO: Menu item 'choose-mirror' selected
> At this point you should have had the option to select a mirror and you
> should have had the option of entering a proxy. By default Australia
> should have been selected as country for which to display available
> mirrors.
> But, these questions _are_ skipped and default values (ftp.debian.org)
> used if you chose the "auto" option.
...I was under the assumption that questions undisplayed due to prio=crit
always reverted to defaults. Shouldn't the default mirror for Australia be
used instead?
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