Bug#488434: installation-reports: somewhat problematic install on Thecus N2100
* Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@debian.org> [2008-06-28 22:19]:
> One small issue. The installation is preseeded from the old
> environment on flash, that is the configuration in the config
> partition of the original thecus firmware. This makes sense for the
> initial install, but less so when doing a reinstallation. In this
> case the old firmware was installed with a static ip, which didn't
> make any sense at all in the network i was installing in.
I'm not sure what to do about this, though. While the current rules
may not work for everything, at least they are pretty simple to
understand (i.e. the configuration is read from flash). I guess I
could try to take the configuration from disk if there's one, but I'm
a bit worried that this would just confuse users (will it take the
config from disk? from flash?)
I don't think people re-install often enough to put much time into
supporting this scenario better. People should simply flash the
original Thecus firmware (as documented) and then, from there, flash
Debian again.
However, I'd be interested to hear your comments. Maybe you have some
good ideas how the situation could be handled.
> The big issue was that i couldn't configure a custom mirror or even select a
> country mirror. After some debugging it turned out that the newt frontend
> immediately returned backup instead of actually showing the UI bits. The
> relevant debconf debugging output is:
I don't know anything about the debconf frontends, so someone else
will have to comment.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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