* Bruno Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-11 18:28]: > (0) Bravo for the use of kernel 2.4.25 and XF86 4.3: at least Debian
The new images use 2.4.26 now. Can you please get a new image from http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/ and tell me which of the issues you reported have been fixed. > (1) my tv card, an ATI TV WONDER/VE was not detected, nor was the > related kernel module loaded. Has this been fixed? > (2) the PCMCIA kernel modules were still loaded. I had to remove those > two modules manually (pcmcia-cs & kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.25-1-386). > Considering new the installer is supposed to automatically detect hardware, This should be fixed; can you confirm? > (3) Partitioning: because the installer gives you only two choices > (taking over the whole hard disk or letting you edit the partition table > manually), I had to go the manual route to make sure my FAT32 partition did > not get deleted. I wonder if a third choice would not have been possible, > to let me keep my FAT32 partition and take over the rest automagically. Well, if you had a FAT partition and then free space, you'd get a 3rd option saying "use the free disk space". > (3.1) the 4 options ("Finish partitioning and write changes to disk", > "Automatically partition a drive", "Undo changes to partitions" & > "Configure the Logical Volume Manager") should be with the two buttons at > the bottom ("Go back" & "Continue") and not be visually with the partition > table. In fact they should be *the bottom menu* that would somehow be like > this: "Go back", "Finish partitioning..." (the new "Continue"), > "Automatically...", "Undo..." and "Configure the...". And there should be > a visual clue, a frame, a scrollable (sp?) list delimiting the partition > table. I'll forward these comments to the author of the partitioning tool. > (3.1.1) Pray tell, what do the little symbols (smiley, lightning) in that > screen do mean, exactly? There's a help menu... but yes, I admit it's not very obvious what they mean. > (4) There should have been an explicit option to have the NIC > configured via DHCP (automatically) or via a static address (manually). We It tried DHCP automatically, and when that fails give you the option to configure a static address. > (6) After the initial reboot, during "part two" of the install, tasksel > asks me how I want to configure my machine. The only way to have just an > FTP & telnet server (maybe I should have used ssh...), I have to select > "conventional Unix server" and get Apache (& more?) in the process. What if > I do not want Apache et al and just want FTP & telnet/ssh servers? Why > can't I do a sub-selection? The idea of taskel is to be very simple to use for new users. If you want tigther control over what is being installed, please use apititude. > (7) The "cdrom" and "audio" groups should have been correctly > configured by d-i so that the "normal user (s)" could hear music. Not > everyone would know about this (I knew this because of previous experiences This is done now. > (8) the d-i, after detecting my hardware, should have detected that my > motherboard can initiate a full shutdown of the machine and should have > installed apmd. I had to do this manually for me just to have to type > "shutdown -h now" and have my machine power off by itself. Do you know how to find out whether a machine has this capability? > (9) In tasksel, I did not select a graphical DE because I wanted to > install KDE 3.2.1... Nonetheless, I feel that both read-edid and mdetect > should have been loaded and set up so that my subsequent set up of XF86 > could have been fully automated. Well, equally you could argue that debian-installer should not install these packages, because they are not needed, e.g. on servers. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
