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Bug#976808: Bullseye arm64 d-i Alpha 3: Items cannot be selected by space



Control: severity -1 normal

On 08/12/2020 10:59, Ryutaroh Matsumoto wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> As I reported at
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976807
> Bullseye arm64 d-i does not provide graphical installation
> to QEMU VMs. So I tried text-based installation. The
> installer says:
> <Tab> moves; <Space> selects; <Enter> activates buttons
> 
> But <Space> is not recognized. When I type an alphabet letter,
> the selection moves to an item starting with that letter,
> but when there are multiple items starting with the same latter
> (e.g. Africa and Asia), I cannot choose the second item (e.g. Asia).
> This really prevents me from installation...

On that specific question, you use the arrow keys to navigate between
options and <Enter> to choose the option you want. But, there are some
questions where you mark which options you want with <Space> and
continue to the next question with <Enter>, you can identify those by
the brackets before given the options which look like:

    [*] Selected option
    [ ] Unselected option

For those questions <Space> does work on my machine with your command.
It might be a small misunderstanding, so lowering severity. But I'd
expect <Space> to answer the first kind of question as well.


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