On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > I installed testing/woody as of 2002-02-21 on a SGI Indy, hinv output below. > > General: > - Installer uses only 80x25 characters (the text messages later > are wider than 80 characters). It would be nice to have a way > to adapt it. > - Console drops some characters when scrolling fast. This is > AFAIK a kernel issue and should at least mentioned in the > install manual (more to this point below). > - There seems to be no redraw via ^L. > > Partition mounting: > - Size of partitions (fdisk -l) is only available via shell escape. > It would be more convenient to have it displayed in the overview. > - Manual mentions /tmp as a recommended mount point but not /boot, > Installer mentions /boot but not /tmp. Both the Manual and the > installer should be expanded WRT. > > Select Installation Server: > - Installer complains about missing Ext3 journal on loop(7,0) > when downloading. > > Configuring device driver modules: > - For every module a message: "Architecture specific modutils > configuration not found, using defaults." Should be fixed by the patch attached to Bug #135169. [..snip..]
> Installing base system: > - The Installer does not re-use the input from "Select Installation > Server" as default. Doing so would be more convenient. > > [reboot for next stage setup] > > Password setup: > - The installer regards e.g. "ica2_ts" as invalid user name, but > only when the password is already typed twice. It should IMHO > allow --force-badname with a warning or at least it should > complain earlier. > > Apt configuration: > - The apt configuration allows to include debian security updates > but tries to use stable mips, which is still not existing. All of the above looks like arch independent issues. Could you please open appropriate bugs against the boot-floppies package? -- Guido
