> using Debian Etch snapshot from May 1st, 2006 I found the following errors: > 1. The installer is buggy. When installing from DVD it only points to debian > mirrors, > not to a local resource as intended. file a bug report [0]. > 2. I did not manage to find a way to install Gnome and / or kde by a menu > point. The installer only performs > a standard basic system installation and leaves the rest to the experienced > user. It is really very tricky to perform a successful > installation at all. iirc, there should be a option to select "desktop system" or "desktop environment". and i do believe that is selected by default, so you should have gotten both gnome and kde installed, ymmv. > 3. Only with the "install" I managed to work successful, the "expert" one > did not succeed at all to install > a basic system. There is no appropriate timeout for the installer looking > for mirrors. > There should be a timeout after a couple of seconds when, during > installation from CD or DVD, > no mirror is not found or wanted at all. what do you mean the 'expert' one did not succeed at all. please be more specific. i suppose if you feel these are indeed bugs, you could file a bug against the etch installer [0]. > 4. Ubuntu 5.10 is much older, not only as far as the kernel is involved, but > Ubuntu´s installer > is far more convenient and intuitive than the actual Debian Etch one. > Is there any time window when this installer will be fixed? one of ubuntu's goals is to be easy to use and to be a desktop distribution. those are not necessarily debian's goals. > 5. Ark needs an eternity to open a complete kernel. Furthermore it does not > open kernel patches > at all (*.tar.bz for example). Moreover by clicking on such a kernel patch > in Mozilla Ark does not open at all. are you talking about a kernel source tree? either way this is probably an issue for the upstream developers of ark. [stuff deleted] > 6. I am missing xine-ui and the latest kaffeine package. add sarge repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list or wait for xine-ui to trickle down from sid. [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Bugs -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 1024D/84E22DA2 2005-11-07 Fingerprint: 78F9 18B3 EF58 56F5 FC85 C5CA 53E7 887F 84E2 2DA2 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
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