Hullo :) This is the first time I've used d-i and I'm generally very impressed, but I do have some moans, which I present here for your consumption.
I'm sure some of these will have been flagged before, so please let me know the score - if some need to be officially lodged in bugs.d.o, also let me know. Bon appetit! :) Installer before reboot: The installer did not detect my network card. I have an old ISA Plug-n-Play NE2000 compatible. When I selected "ne" from the driver list, it was detected immediately without requiring any IO/IRQ settings. I can understand if 'discover' simply doesn't support ISA any more - it's been legacy for too long already. However, "ne" was not added to /etc/modules, so on reboot I was unable to access the LAN until I loaded the module and /etc/init.d/networking restart. Base-config: The "Set up users and passwords" writes two lines of similar text to the whiptail window when asking for a normal-priv user. The exact texts are something like "Please enter a name" and "Please enter the name". Tasksel's 'Custom Kernel' package will install kernel-source-2.4.25, when the installer has installed 2.4.26-386. Tasksel is confusing to use. The Help text says that pressing ENTER or SPACEBAR on a task will toggle the selection. This is not the case. If I use the LEFT/RIGHT cursor keys to see "More Info" for a task, then pressing ENTER or SPACEBAR will again invoke the 'More Info' function. >From this point, the only way to again toggle tasks is to move the cursor left or right until none of the three options are highlighted - I'm an experienced sysadmin having done dozens of installs, and I find this most confusing - I shudder to think how a new user would find it :) I'll explain what I did, and what happened. I want KDE installed, but not GNOME. I selected 'Desktop environment', and then pressed cursor keys until I got 'More Info' selected - on seeing that it will install GNOME, I wanted to remove my selection of 'Desktop environment', but I managed to press LEFT, and then SPACE. Rather than deselecting 'Desktop Environment' this pressed 'Finish' so apt-get then immediately went to download 400MB of packages for X11, KDE and GNOME. I pressed CTRL-C to stop it, and it gracefully exited and returned me to the previous menu, where I selected only 'X Window system' and then 'Finish'. Unfortunately it had remembered the previous selection, and still wanted to download KDE/GNOME/X11 :( In fact, even after getting to the base-config menu, and pressing Cancel to completely restart base-config, it still remembered all the GNOME/KDE stuff I had now decided NOT to install. I bypassed Tasksel, configured exim, finished base-config, and then executed apt-get install x-window-system manually. Cheers, Gavin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
