Nice new installer. I tried this and the beta3. Less bugs. The dialogs are more clear and the text that goes with it. The way the questions are separated from the explanations. The borderless window in the gui. Overall I saw a great improvement in the experience.
small details i found: - A little of inconsistency presenting yes/no questions with a continue button, in the same way we present the rest of the steps of the installation. I had to think for a while why i had no back button. - When selecting a partition with data it knows the format of the fs, but it does not autoselect it. Im i remember correctly once you select the format, it does selects keep the data by default, witch is desirable :) - Make partitions does hasnt been deal with stand out from the ones that has (either automatically or by the user) would be great. In my case the, the installation of the GRUB boot loader on the hard disk failed. But I was only presented with a big general error screen... with little detail on why it failed. Maybe some more info is desirable without having to look at the logs. Installer logs are huge. A little error grepping found the problem, but i think it would be friendlier to log errors to a separate file.err as well These are the relevant lines: Dec 29 00:41:32 linux-boot-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted Dec 29 00:41:32 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on 'dummy' Dec 29 00:41:32 grub-installer: error: no boot device found to install to Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 3 (pipe:[6373]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 4 (/dev/tty1) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 5 (/dev/tty1) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): File descriptor 6 (/dev/tty1) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 12210: /bin/sh Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): grub-probe: error: no such disk. Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: (process:11487): grub-probe: error: no such disk. Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: WARNING **: Configuring 'grub-installer' failed with error code 1 Dec 29 00:41:32 main-menu[629]: WARNING **: Menu item 'grub-installer' failed. Not sure if I did something wrong on the partitioning or a bug, probably the former, but i havent figured out why it is trying to install grub on dummy nor i found any more references to this dummy device on this or the rest of the logs. Thanks! On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi folks! > > (Including debian-devel@ to let people know where we stand.) > > I'm happy to report we're getting closer to a first release candidate > for the Debian Installer. I've still got a few packages on my radar, > but the list has been steadily shrinking during the last week. > > That basically boils down to: > - busybox vs. setupcon: #606395 (console keymap in g-i) > - cdebconf: Info message position (comments welcome): #696699; > apparently that one didn't reach the list when I submitted it, > bounced today. > - grub-installer: install from USB issues. > - manual: needs an upload after a few more patches are reviewed. > - qcontrol: #696815 (armhf addition, via t-p-u). > - yaboot-installer: needs review+upload > > I'm currently awaiting feedback on the first two; the third one needs > some code changes and I'm going to work on it right now; qcontrol can > be handled by Ian/release team; yaboot-installer wants somebody to > look at it, will do once I'm done with grub-installer unless somebody > beats me to it. > > If you see other things you want to get fixed, now is the time to > mention them (by mailing -boot@). > > > Release team, here's a fourth list of unblock(-udeb)s. Still no need > for urgents since there's some more work to do. :) > > ### blindly trusting Samuel > unblock brltty/4.4-7 > unblock-udeb brltty/4.4-7 > > ### add preseeding support for keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap > unblock console-setup/1.89 > unblock-udeb console-setup/1.89 > > ### fix for #679327 > unblock debconf/1.5.49 > > ### l10n + unrelated-hopefully-harmless better support for crossbuilding > unblock eject/2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13 > unblock-udeb eject/2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13 > > ### fix for #694156 (= workaround for #696773) > unblock finish-install/2.41 > unblock-udeb finish-install/2.41 > > ### l10n > unblock lvmcfg/1.29 > unblock-udeb lvmcfg/1.29 > > ### bits of l10n and tiny improvement merged from Ubuntu > unblock partman-partitioning/90 > unblock-udeb partman-partitioning/90 > > ### bug fix for #695908, and a test suite addition, which helped > ### confirm the first iteration of the patches was buggy and the > ### second one a bit less: > unblock preseed/1.57 > unblock-udeb preseed/1.57 > > ### l10n > unblock s390-dasd/0.0.29 > unblock-udeb s390-dasd/0.0.29 > > ### l10n > unblock s390-netdevice/0.0.35 > unblock-udeb s390-netdevice/0.0.35 > > > Thanks already! > > Mraw, > KiBi. >
