Frans Pop wrote: > It's logical from the installer's pov, but not from a _user's_ pov. > How the hell is he supposed to guess that he will be asked about additional > CDs later when confronted with a question about a network mirror? > > If I (as a newbie) were confronted by that question I would think "OK, so > that's it: I either use the mirror or have to do with what's included on > this one CD; let's choose the mirror to be safe". Hmm, if you were a true newbie, wouldn't it make sense to assume that the Debian installer has a way of using all these CDs you bought? It seems to me that the user who would be more confused/disheartened on seeing the mirror question before the CD question is a user who's aware of Debian's checkered past (which included broken multi-cd support for at least one pre-di release, IIRC). I suppose we could go back to base-config's concept of: Apt currently knows about $N packages. add a mirror scan another cd done Although I never felt that was a good UI, and it's not friendly to preseeding. > And you're not answering the case where someone would want to use 2 CDs + a > network mirror because he has a reasonable but not great Internet > connection. It's unlikely that tasksel is going to want anything beyond what's on those first 2 CDs, so it would be reasonable to just use them for the install and set up a mirror later. -- see shy jo
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