On Monday 25 August 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> More updates attached. More reviews welcome.
Same deal.
Cheers,
FJP
+++ b/manual/en/install-methods/downloading-files.xml
+Using the <classname>apt-spy</classname> package on an already installed
+Debian system can also help you in finding the fastest mirror available.
FJP: I'd tried apt-spy before and did again a few days ago and must say
I'm not impressed. Getting it to do anything at all is not trivial.
I had serious trouble finding that the "suite" option is required
(would have been much better if that was a parameter instead).
It segfaults if you give an option that needs a parameter without
the parameter. It's not clear whether you should give a country
name or code.
But most of all, if I try it for NL, *only* ftp.nl.d.o is tried,
which is rather useless.
My conclusion is that it is *not* a tool for newbies. And especially
for areas where you'd need it most you'd probably need to provide the
list of mirrors to test manually.
I personally would not mention it in the installation guide.
+++ b/manual/en/using-d-i/modules/partman.xml
+Each partition line consists of the partition number, its type, size, optional
+flags, file system, and mountpoint.
FJP: Note that this differs for some disk labels!
<title>Manual Partitioning</title>
FJP: Maybe add a para explaining that pre-existing LVM/RAID will be
activated and listed by default, but that pre-existing encrypted
partitions will not be? Not sure if that should be here or earlier.
+If you choose manual partitioning, you will be presented with a list of
+your existing partitions. How to manually setup your partition table and the
+usage of partitions by your new Debian system will be covered in the remainder
+of this section. After make the necessary changes, the partition list might
+look like this:
FJP: s/make/making/
+This example shows two IDE harddrives divided into several partitions;
+the first disk has some free space. Each partition line consists of the
+partition number, its type, size, optional flags, file system, and
+mountpoint (if any).
FJP: s/harddrives/hard drives/
FJP: Same comment as above.
+++ b/manual/en/using-d-i/modules/lowmem.xml
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ additional memory and thus may cause the installation to fail.
</para><para>
-If the installer runs in low memory mode, it is recommended to create
-a relatively large swap partition (64–128MB). The swap partition
-will be used as virtual memory and thus increases the amount of memory
-available to the system. The installer will activate the swap partition
-as early as possible in the installation process. Note that heavy use
-of swap will reduce performance of your system and may lead to high
-disk activity.
+If the installer runs in low memory mode, it is recommended to create a
+relatively large swap partition (at least 64–128MB). The swap
+partition will be used as virtual memory and thus increases the amount
+of memory available to the system. The installer will activate the swap
+partition as early as possible in the installation process. Note that
+heavy use of swap will reduce performance of your system and may lead to
+high disk activity.
FJP: Please do not reformat the whole para for a minor change.
Suggest to remove the "–128" if you add "at least".
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