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On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:07:08PM -0700, Avery Fay wrote:
> 1.) The installer repeatedly asks me if I want to start pccard
> services. I realize I'm doing an expert install, but I can't see a
> situation where I would change my mind and therefore would want to be
> asked again.
Imagine that you have a PC Card NIC. The drivers for the PC Card
controller are in a udeb on an IDE CD-ROM drive. You would not enable
the PC Card service during the first question, but you would the second
time.
> 2.) Guided partitioning does not ask at all about swap. It gave me a
> 10 or 12 GB swap partition which is pretty ridiculous for my needs. A
> simple question like "How large do you want your swap partition to be
> (in multiples of main memory)?" would be fine. Again, this is an
> expert install. I'd like to be asked about this stuff.
Already known issue. See #346589.
> 3.) GB != GB in manual LVM setup. Space available on a volume group is
> reported as 299GB and yet making a logical volume of 295GB fails
> because there isn't enough space. I don't really care whether the
> installer uses traditional mega-, giga- or "hard drive manufacturer"
> mega-, giga-, BUT it should be consistent. As it is, manual
> partitioning is guess and check.
Already known issue. See #411943.
> 4.) The gui installer crashed when I tried to manually partition.
> Given some of the recent reports on debian-boot, I decided not to
> investigate this further, but if there are no known crashes (was
> gdk-something) I can try to get it to happen again.
I had no report of such issue. You would be welcome if you could
provide us a procedure on how to reproduce the crashes you have
experienced.
> 5.) Having a gui is a great way to make partitioning easier.
> Unfortunately, the current gui is an exact clone of the text
> interface. This does not translate well at all. I'd like to see visual
> representation of the layout as well as buttons for add/delete/modify
> next to partitions. Also, there's no need to go to a separate page
> when modifying a partition... just bring up a modal dialogue.
A specific partitioning interface for the graphical installer is in
everyone's mind for a while now. The first step was to work on the GTK+
frontend for cdebconf to make the creation of plugins easier and this is
mostly done now.
Given the short time before the release of Lenny, we have decided to
improve the current interface (by providing properly aligned columns
instead of misrendered whitespaces) instead of working on a specific
partitioner interface.
The main issue is lack of time and interested contributors though.
Cheers,
--
Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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