Package: anna Version: +N/A; reported 2003-01-30 Severity: normal I'm only just acquainting myself with the sarge installer CD which was announced in this week's DWN. Sorry if I'm reporting a bug against the wrong package; I am under the impression that anna is responsible for the actual prompts I see (and the bugs reported against it/her seem to confirm this) but I only just started to try to understand the new installer and I apologize if I have jumped to incorrect conclusions.
I burned the larger variant (83 meg image downloaded this morning from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-netinst.iso which has a size of 87064576 bytes and is dated Jan 25 04:48) and managed to boot it (which was tricky because I am using an old laptop with only *either* a floppy or a CD drive -- but I digress :-) When I get to Load installer modules (fetch from CD), I am presented with a listing of 40 entries. This is impossible to view because the screen is only 24 lines and each entry takes up at least one line. There seem to be duplicates which only differ in their minor version number, could they be collapsed to one entry somehow perhaps? (Also it would be nice if these were adjacent in the listing so it's easier to spot the duplicates, if you can't collapse them into one entry, that is.) The lack of a more(1) or similar makes it challenging to look at what's on the system -- I have been doing sed -n 1,24p etc on files that look interesting but if I happen to look at a binary file, chances are it will shift the console's character set into graphics mode and then I will have to reboot in order to proceed (or drive blind, which is of course also an alternative). I guess I'll file a wishlist bug about this. Thanks for the installer, it looks rather promising already. /* era */ -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Kernel Version: Linux there.afraid.org 2.2.20 #1 SMP Thu Nov 7 16:15:53 EET 2002 i586 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
