Package: installation-reports Yesterday I tried to install Debian testing on a ThinkPad T43p using the then current version of debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso, which was dated 2016-08-22. I chose the default at almost all stages and everything seemed to work up to the bit where it told me to remove the installation media and reboot. It started to reboot, but I don't think it got as far as mounting the disc. It complained about some missing firmware (not a bug), then just stopped, with some sporadic disc activity continuing for a while, according to the LED. I left it for ages in case it was running fsck invisibly (which is a stupid thing to do but I've seen Linux systems do that) but it never got anywhere. I tried the whole thing twice, with and without disc encryption. With disc encryption it did get as far as asking for the passphrase, which it recognised when I typed it correctly the second time, so it must have read some data from the disc.
Afterwards I successfully installed using debian-8.5.0-i386-netinst.iso on the same hardware. Another thing: I went for "Graphical install" but ended up using the keyboard rather than the mouse. If I remember correctly, buttons at the bottom of the screen were not accessible using the mouse because the mouse pointer would wrap around back to the top of the screen a few centimetres before the bottom. The screen is 1600x1200.
