On Sunday 07 January 2007 22:13, Clive Menzies wrote: > Comments/Problems: > Apart from having to disable autodetect of the Cdrom to get the media > to boot, Hmm. Can you elaborate on that a bit? This could possibly help other as well. Was this a BIOS setting you had to disable? What is the exact name of that setting and what does it do? Any idea why it interferes with booting the installer? > the installation was very smooth/slick; particularly > impressive was the guided LVM partitioning with separate partitions for > /, /home, /usr, /var and /tmp. Thanks. > Minor issues: I didn't install anything at the tasksel stage but when > I went to use aptitude after reboot, it wanted a CD inserted. When > editing the sources.list there were two CD lines: one commented and the > other uncommented. Commenting the second allowed aptitude to proceed > as normal. Known issue; fix planned, but probably not before the release of Etch. > The public key was missing until I upgraded gnupg but I guess I > wouldn't have encountered this if I'd accepted some packages at the > tasksel stage. Probably also if you'd used a more recent image than RC1. > pciutils wasn't installed by default. It is installed I think if you select the Desktop task. It is not part of the base system, nor priority standard, so why should D-I decide on its own to install it? > Overall, d-i gets better everytime I use it - great work! ... and many > thanks to all! Thanks again; also for filing the report. Cheers, FJP
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