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Bug#697442: better experience with wheezy installer



On Sat 05 Jan 2013 at 15:20:06 +0000, Dick Middleton wrote:

> Following my rant I zeroed the partition table and started over.
> 
> It all went swimmingly well.  Using the net-dist CD.
> 
> No problems with xfs or crypto and errors.  Also no finger trouble.

Thank you for following up on your experience.

> The only issue is the font on the console is set to 600x480 and not 1024x768
> or even 1280x1024.

TAB at the boot menu and vga=791 or vga=794 on the kernel command line.

> So I don't know what was wrong last night.

I have trouble remembering what went wrong an hour ago. :)

> Before I reinstalled with the net-dist CD I wiped partition table and
> reinstalled with netboot PXE.  I missed out the keyboard section again.  It
> all installed OK but didn't boot - no grub.  In rescue system iniramfs

Where did GRUB install to? Or did you specify where it was to go? I
generally do the latter.

> complained about no kbd.  I went back to keyboard section and it immediately
> hung-up. I think there's a problem there.

Not for much longer. Please see bug #697449.

Regards,

Brian.


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