Otavio Salvador wrote:
forcemerge 573429 567980
thanks
Hello,
I re-tested debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso as of today Aug 30, 2010.
1) characters meant for menu boundaries were "corrupt", and printed
funny-looking ascii characters. Everything was usable, but certainly not
as intended by those who programmed the installer.
Please see if you can reproduce it using current daily images and
provide a screenshot or picture of it so we can see what you mean by
"corrupt". In meanwhile I will assume it is working fine.
The problem is gone, menus look fine now.
2) the network detection seems a regression from the lenny installer I tried
several months ago. I do not use dhcp, so I specify the network manually.
The old lenny installer was happy with the network number, gateway, and
DNS. The installer then discovered the computer name and domain
automatically. This new squeeze installer needs all this info by hand.
Please in case you can reproduce it using latest dailies elaborate it
a bit more because I didn't figure out what you meant.
When you connect to a network using not DHCP but a static IP, it is
sufficient for the installer to know
1) the IP of the computer to be installed
2) the gateway to connect to the network
3) the DHCP to resolve hosts.
Everything else should be deduced by interrogating the network.
Indeed the lennny installer does not ask for any other information.
The new squeeze installer instead then proceeds to ask for:
4) computer name
5) domain name
These last 2 steps should be removed as unnecessary, and restore lenny
installer's name and domain resolution from the the network.
(I guess, by calling the "host" commandline program with
host $IP | awk '{print $NF}'
[where $IP holds the static IP just provided by the user],
or something equivalent in other scripting languages).
3) the installer detected correctly the windoze OS, and made me assume that
it would be included it in the grub initial menu. It wasn't.
Post installation I had to run update-grub manually, then the menu did
include windoze as expected.
I can confirm this issue. I am reassigning it to grub-installer since
it needs to be fixed there.
OK.
Thanks a lot by reporting it.
Not at all, I'm a proud debian user, and making debian better and more
friendly is an important task.
Thank you, who do the programming effort!
Best,
Nick
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