Bug#415388: installation-report: Debian on NSLU2 with RC2 with firmware

[Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in>]

Hello,

Thanks for your detailed reply.

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > The network install had to be done through a proxy service provided
> > over a local link. This meant that clock update via NTP was not
> > possible.  Perhaps the network install should not assume that TIME
> > can be setup via NTP.
> 
> Actually, the installer doesn't use NTP at all (at least not yet).
> Setting up the clock just takes a while; I'm not sure what it does
> exactly, but NTP is not run.

Thanks. That is good to know. I'm writing a short article for LG about
the installation and so I'll incorporate this info.

> > One difficulty with such installs is the lack of feedback from the
> > machine while it is installing. Perhaps there could be the option of
> > offering a splitvt-based monitoring of the install.
> 
> What kind of output would you like to see if splitvt was used?

In the i386 installer it is possible to switch to another screen to
see the syslog messages which are sometimes useful to look at to know
if something went wrong. There is also a possibility of a shell to
just peek at what's going on. This suggestion is mainly for hackers
like me who will potter around further slowing down the installation :-)

Regards,

Kapil.
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