Re: Installation test report: 1997-04-04
"Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:
> I tested the installation disks today; the 1997-04-04 set from
> the ftp://master.debian.org Incoming directory.
>
> Here's a list of things I found:
>
> When you boot the rescue disk, and press F9, the second line is too
> long and the \n is at the edge, causing an extra blank line to be
> displayed.
Thanks for spotting this, I changed it.
> I also wonder, what will go on the other function keys??? Perhaps a
> brief explaination of the order of the installation steps? Or does
> that belong in install.html? Or things like how to scroll the linux
> console with shift-pageup/pagedown, and that scrollock works?
> Something about the log on f3 and f4? The shell on f2? Or boot-line
> examples?
I don't have a design concept for these info text. Suggestions
invited.
> The 'Release Notes' dialog screen says that the disk was created on
> Feb. 12, 1997. That isn't right, is it?
I changed the scripts so that this date is changed automatically :-)
> I've no CD, but do have a CDROM. So after every dialog screen, there
> was an error message that flashes by too fast to read. I managed to
> read it by re-invoking the keyboard setup a bunch of times: sda: dev
> no ready... blah blah. It is harmless, and won't happen if a CD is in
> the drive, I suppose, but maybe we should warn about it in the
> install.html file??? There may be people with CDROM's installing
> another way who won't have a CD in there, and who may not understand
> the error message.
Why is the CD-ROM accessed as sda?
> It occured to me that perhaps the reason that person's 3rd diskette
> kept failing is that the disk got popped before the light went out?
> Or that the dd commandline was wrong; no sync after it? The docs
> could mention that maybe.
On Linux the dd should finish after the device is closed, and the
device is only closed when the writing is finished.
> After reboot, the starting message needs to be piped through the
> pager. I checked, and 'more' is there, so it could be used. I knew
> to press Shift-PageUp/PageDown to scroll the screen and read all of
> the 'you need to set a root passwd' information, but a newbie won't.
The message fits on the screen, but the new passwd adds a message
telling which characters should be in a password. Now the message is
too long ...
> After you log in, it still says Debian 1.2 at login prompts. I think
> the copyright date is saying 1996 also. Some nice color ANSI would
> look good too...
You cannot rely on having an ANSI terminal.
Sven
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