reassign 603444 installation-guide thanks Le Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:09:21AM -0700, Gregory Nowak a écrit : > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > > Some explanations in appendix b.4 of the Debian installation guide are > unclear to me, and might therefore be unclear to others.
Dear Gregory, You sent your bug report to the wrong package. I reassigned it to the installation-guide package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa. > 1. Section b.4.3 states: > > "Use the following settings if you wish to make use of the network-console > # component for remote installation over SSH. This only makes sense if you > # intend to perform the remainder of the installation manually." > > Where can one find more info on this? > At what point can the user take manual control over the installation process > when using this method? > If a user doesn't have a monitor attached to the computer, how would one know > when it is possible to take manual control of the installation process? > > Depending on the answer to the question on where one can find more info, > answers to the 2 questions following that one may not be necessary. > > > 2. Section b.4.4 reads: > > "#d-i mirror/protocol string ftp > d-i mirror/country string manual > d-i mirror/http/hostname string http.us.debian.org > d-i mirror/http/directory string /debian" > > Even though the first line says mirror/protocol string ftp, some users may > find it confusing that all other values begin with mirror/http/... I think it > would be a good idea to state something like: > > "If you will use an ftp mirror, fill mirror/http/hostname, and > mirror/http/directory, with information for the ftp mirror you're going to > use." > > > 3. Section b.4.6 reads: > > "If the system has free space you can choose to only partition that space. > #d-i partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select biggest_free" > > How will this space be partitioned, as one big partition, or several smaller > partitions? > If several smaller partitions, then how is the size and mount point of each > partition determined? > What file system will be used on partitions created in this way? > Will this free space also have a swap partition created, or not? > The phrase > > "Alternatively, you can specify a disk to partition." > > leads me to understand that the discussion about recipes below doesn't apply > to automatically partitioning the biggest free space, thus my confusion. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.6 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.21 > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
