Bug#488434: installation-reports: somewhat problematic install on Thecus N2100
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2008-06-30 09:33]:
> * 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.
Sjoerd, do you have any comments? I don't see how this could be
handled in a better way and I don't think many users will run into
this problem, so I don't intend to do anything about it... however,
maybe you have a good idea I couldn't think of.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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