On Thursday 29 March 2007 03:23, Josh Triplett wrote: > Comments/Problems: > The installer presented me with three possible network devices: > firewire networking (eth0), ethernet (eth1), and wireless (eth2). > However, checking dmesg showed that the wireless card failed to load > required firmware, so it likely wouldn't have worked if I tried it. The installer currently has no knowledge of firmware; this will be worked on for Lenny. > Also, while the ability to install over firewire networking seems quite > useful, many systems have firewire, and most users will not want to use > it for the install; thus, if only firewire and one other network > interface exist, the install should default to the other network > interface without asking. The installer does link detection, so it should probably have selected your wired NIC based on that. Would be nice to know if/why that did not work. > In general, when I install with a netinst CD, I only want to install > packages from the network after the initial install, so I had to go > remove the CD from /etc/apt/sources.list . Perhaps the question about > using a network mirror could have three responses: "Use a network > mirror only", "Use a network mirror in addition to the CD", and "Use > the CD only"? Known issue; on the todo list for Lenny. > I made the mistake of allowing tasksel to install all standard > packages. This still installs far too much. Some examples of things > that should not have standard priority (along with bug numbers when > filed; those should become blocking bugs after this installation report > has a bug number): The priority of packages is not a debian-installer issue. It is an issue that should be discussed on debian-devel and bugs should be filed primarily against the relevant packages and eventually against ftp.d.o. As you already seem to have filed the relevant reports I don't see any further action necessary. IMO an installation report should not be used for tracking if these bugs have been solved as it is not a d-i issue. Cheers, FJP
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