reopen 394744 retitle 394744 provide a hint when unsupport hardware is detected severity 394744 wishlist thanks
Op 23-10-2006 om 07:08 schreef Andreas Tille: > The additional hint I wanted to give is that there should be some easily > detectable information for newbies if something like that happens. > > I would think the following would be helpful (for instance in the case of > a not detected NIC): > > Your computer contains a network card `output of lspci | grep Ethernet` > This is card seems not to be supported by the current installation kernel > of Debian GNU/Linux. (Don't know whether this is a reasonable guess > because there might be other types of failure.) > > You might try to ask your favourite Search Engine to browse the internet > for "Debian Linux `string from above`" or ask debian-user for further > help. > > The problem is that I wanted to demonstrate a newbie how easy it is to > install Debian on his fresh box, but failed and there was no clue given > what to do next. I do not want to blame the installer for failing where it > has no chance to success but we could try to give at least some information > how to proceed now. I admit I have not read the installation manual and > perhaps some information is given there. But even then my suggestion > above should be turned into: Please read installation manual topic > "Trouble shooting (or whatever)". > > Kind regards > > Andreas. Your wish is now again in the bug tracking system. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
