Hello Debian-installer team, After testing beta 1 and beta 2, I tried beta 3, with the same goal in mind: install Debian in a file using a loop device.
As far as I could see, all beta detected the hardware of the box fine. beta 1 and 2 lacked the minimal support to create loop device, but the situation has improved : now there is a 'dd' utility and 'mount' support '-oloop' provide we issue modprobe loop before calling mount (which I found a bit confusing, it would be better if the module was autoloaded, but never mind). There is no 'losetup' but it is probably not neccessary. Now, the problem is that I can't find any way to skip the 'partman' step of d-i. b-f conveniently detected that /target existed and allow to go to 'install base system' directly. So I have not yet be able to complete the installation this time! Anyway, for all I can see, beta 3 is a huge improvement over beta 2. The 'expert mode' modules selection suffers from a usability problem: usually it is easier to select the module we need that the modules we do not need. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
