Re: Installing Buster (improvements)

[Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>]

On 6/30/20 1:36 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:

> Hello,
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>       today I installed Buster on my laptop.
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    It would be very helpful to know which of the many install ISOs you
    used.
> As
>       usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest
>       the follwing improvements to the Graphical install:
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>       a) At some point the process informed me, that a firmware module
>       is missing and asked whether I would like to supply it from a
>       disk, a USB stick or from the net. As I had this module from
>       another installation on a USB stick I stuck it into the laptop.
>       The install process did not even look at it; it was looking only
>       for network devices.
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    How do we know that "The install process did not even look at it"? 
    
    BTW: in the future if you expect the need for firmware I suggest
    using one of the many unofficial non-free firmware ISOs.
    
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>       b) Before I started the installation I defined a partition of
>       150GB on the disk (SSD) for Debian. At some point in the process
>       the system informed me that I did not provide a swap partition (I
>       had hoped the installation process would allocate that
>       automatically from the space provided) and asked whether I want to
>       define that partition. 
    This is normal, you have many options. Sometimes swap is not wanted.
> As
>       there was some room left on the disk I was ready to do it. The
>       system asked for the data of where that partition should lie in
>       terms of 'cylinder/sector/head' (or something like it). Now
>       usually I am not concerned with this type of data and even more so
>       as I was installing debian on an SSD. As there was no way I could
>       solve this problem directly I had to abort the installation,
>       define the swap partition and restart the installion process.
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    It is unfortunate that you did not read any of the Debian Wiki
    install manuals and tutorials before you started.

I suggest you start reading here: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/installmanual

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>       Couldn't that be done more user friendly? Especially in view of
>       the fact that I assume  that Graphical Install is not supposed to
>       be an Expert installation.
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    That was a poor assumption. Again, the install manual covers that.
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>       c) When entering the passwords for root and for the user there are
>       always two lines: one for entering the password, the other where
>       one clicks if one wants to see the password.
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>       I suggest that these two line be switched: the first  for the
>       selection for seeing the password, the second for entering the
>       password.  Again a little increase in user friendlyness.
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    There are tons of ISOs and methods. Best of luck next time.