2.0 boot floppies
hi,
we've tried the dists/unstable boot floppies and noticed some things:
- The old ones looked better ;)
e. g. in the main menu, there's no space between the text and the
options.
- In the keyboard configuration menu one has to select the keyboard
type with space, then change the focus to OK using tab and then
press enter to get out. That is not what is described at the bottom,
nor can it be guessed easily.
- The ncr driver probably shouldn't have "allow disconnect" enabled
since it makes the kernel crash on some configurations.
- The installation of rescue- and driver disk should be a little more
flexible, e. g. one on a floppy and the other mounted from a gzipped
image (would be nice).
- You can't cancel dialogs with esc or ctrl-c, especially you can't
cancel "initialize partition" until the very end.
- dpkg-ftp doesn't work; there seems to be a perl library missing.
- dselect won't accept the unstable distribution easily without giving
explicit paths for every location. It should accept any base path
after reassurance when it can't find stable/binary, so one can set
the path (e. g. /main/binary-i386) for the sections relative to the
base path. It should also give the last path as the default in such
a way that one can edit it (there's no gpm at that time...).
- Should cvs really be installed by default? Normal user won't have a
clue how to configure it.
- The mail sent to the linux counter pages states the version of
Debian as 1.1 :)
- It would be nice to have autolist via tab and sorted directories
(from ls) during configuration. A history would also be nice, but
that's probably an ash restriction?
If any of those are already fixed, I apologize.
Bye,
Falk
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