Nice new installer. I tried this and the beta3. Less bugs. The dialogs are more clear and the text that goes with it. The way the questions are separated from the explanations. The borderless window in the gui. Overall I saw a great improvement in the experience.
small details i found:
- A little of inconsistency presenting yes/no questions with a continue button, in the same way we present the rest of the steps of the installation. I had to think for a while why i had no back button.
- When selecting a partition with data it knows the format of the fs, but it does not autoselect it. Im i remember correctly once you select the format, it does selects keep the data by default, witch is desirable :)
- Make partitions does hasnt been deal with stand out from the ones that has (either automatically or by the user) would be great.
In my case the, the installation of the GRUB boot loader on the hard disk failed. But I was only presented with a big general error screen... with little detail on why it failed. Maybe some more info is desirable without having to look at the logs.
Installer logs are huge. A little error grepping found the problem, but i think it would be friendlier to log errors to a separate file.err as well
These are the relevant lines:
Dec 29 00:41:32 linux-boot-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted
Dec 29 00:41:32 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on 'dummy'
Dec 29 00:41:32 grub-installer: error: no boot device found to install to
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 3 (pipe:[6373]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 4 (/dev/tty1) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 5 (/dev/tty1) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 6 (/dev/tty1) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): grub-probe: error: no such disk.
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): grub-probe: error: no such disk.
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1
Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed.
Not sure if I did something wrong on the partitioning or a bug, probably the former, but i havent figured out why it is trying to install grub on dummy nor i found any more references to this dummy device on this or the rest of the logs.
Thanks!