On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael Renner wrote: > > You can get the ability to do manual configuration if you boot with > DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium. Whether we should ask about it by default is > debatable, and you'll be asked about several other things that are > similarly grey in that mode.. I don't know if this has beewn discussed already, but what about letting the user choose between dummy/normal/expert-mode at the start of the installation (whereas dummy does most things automatic, maybe even partitioning, and expert is the most 'verbose' mode regarding to questions asked) > I forget what it was called in the beta, but it is currently called > "Load installer components from CD", which I think is clear. It's > followed by "Detect hardware". Hm, ok, I'll pay attention to that during the next install. [/boot partition size warning] > > Bleagh. :-) Yeah, depends on the target audience. I don't know how many mails still hit the debian user mailinglists complaining about broken lilo installations regarding that. [lilo bugs] > I agree that this is suboptimal, and there are bugs about at least some > of what you mention. Ok. I'll watch them. [missing host prompt if dhcp'ed] > If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls > back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs more > work still, but in the daily builds you will be prompted for a hostname > after you reboot if the installer didn't set one. Ok. I guess this is the best way to handle that since (IIRC) most dhcp servers don't hand out hostnames (iE those who hand out addresses from an IP pool) [missing apt sources] > This is intentional. non-us is dead, non-free is not part of debian, and > contrib is 90% useless without non-free. We'd prefer that the few users > who need that stuff manually add entries for it like they do for other > extra-Debian apt sources. Ah, ok. Didn't know about that one. best regards, michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
