On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:51:34PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Thanks for your review. I agree with everything I don't comment. > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:35:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > * It really does need a progress bar at startup. It does seem that fair > > bit of the delay is disk-bound and not cpu-bound. > > Yes, it is mostly disk-bound and includes also tests on your > relatively slow usb device.
Could that not be done little by little ? It searches for the quick buses (ide and scsi mostly), and then displays something, while further disks are searched silently in the background. Once they are found, a feedback can be given or something. Or maybe this could be done in the detecting hardware phase ? Anyway, a minute long empty screen is no go, many will think, as i probably did, that d-i just died. > > * If I create a new partition, its settings default to "do not use", not > > bootable, not mounted, no filesystem type. These are not good defaults and > > mean a lot of work to get a usable setup. > > It is not easy to find the good defaults. These should ideally be per arch/subarch defaults. Also, this is something that could be choosen together with the way the partitions will be mounted later on. PS. some of my comments may be stupid, since i never managed to get partman runnin on my box. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
