#include <hallo.h> Beat Rupp wrote on Mon Jan 28, 2002 um 03:59:20PM:
> Today I did another install with your newest 2.4-kernel boot floppys. I > already successfully installed the older version about 2 weeks ago on two > other computers. Nice to hear it. > - On the welcome screen I noticed that there's always talked about the > "Diskette" instead of "CD". This message should probably be slightly updated > to reflect the fact that most people are installing from CD nowadays. > Something like "Boot CD/Diskette" respectively "boot CD/floppy" etc. "Installationsdisk" sounds better for you? > > - Typos at step "Anmerkung zum zus�tzlichen Platz f�rs ReiserFS-Journal": > "... Normallerweise ..." -> should be "... Normalerweise..." Fixed. > "...(der erwarte freie Speicherplatz)..." -> should be "...(der erwartete > freie Speicherplatz)..." Fixed. > - Formatting the partitions: the screen is filled with details about the > progress of the ReiserFS-Journal being written. This is confusing for some Well, on slow harddisks you would like to have more info about the problem. To Jaqque: what's your opinion? > - Typo at step "Mit 'notail' einbinden": > "...Wenn Sie den LILO nicht als Boot-Loader werden m�chten, sagen Sie Nein. > ..." -> Should be something like "...Wenn Sie den LILO nicht als Boot-Loader > einrichten m�chten, sagen Sie Nein. ..." Sounds rational. > (fremder Anbieter) zu installieren." -> "Alternate1" should be "Alternative1" > like the actual menu entry below this text. Fixed. > - While installing driver modules: > After selecting a module and pressing ENTER, I get the whole screen filled > with this: > > /target/usr/bin/modconf: cannot create: directory nonexistent > [repeats 3 times after this one] Does it break anything? If not, just ignore this. I guess this is a problem which has been fixed in CVS (of modconf). Hm, IMHO it is time to make a new modconf release. > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > /lib/modules/2.4.17-bf2.4/pcmcia/[repeated_for_all_modules] Hm. I see big problems with pcmcia-modules, needs further investigation :( > where [repeated_for_all_modules] stands for about every pcmcia module > included in this kernel. the screen ist totally filled up with these lines. It calls depmod again, so you see the same messages. > after pressing ENTER installation resumes ordinarily and the respective > module is correctly loaded.... > Fortunately I didn't install on a laptop this time :-) I will have a look at this problem. > - Typo at step "W�hlen Sie den Rechnernamen" > "... Wenn der Rechnern an ein ..." -> should be "... Wenn der Rechner an ein > ..." Fixed. > again with DHCP. But instead it presented me with the manual configuration of > the interface. Well, luck for me because it's what I wanted but it's not what > someone else expects after saying yes to the automatic configuration. > In short: the two buttons do the very opposite of their meaning. Argh, bug in the translation. Fixed. > - After having installed the base drivers etc. I was asked from where I > wanted to install the actual Debian system. As mirror I tired > "http://http.de.debian.org"; but then got the error message "Malformed Release > File". This was an issue earlier with Woody boot floppies. I thought it was Is this problem fixed in the recent debootstrap upload - who knows more about it? > selected earlier in the install process? If someone takes German as > installation language it's quite sure that he is located at least in Europe, > more specifically in Germany, Switzerland or Austria. Of course it could be > someone in Australia who wants a German Debian Linux but he always could > change the mirror by hand. It's just that the _majority_ of users doesn't > have to change the mirror by hand. Makes sense. Write a wishlist bug please. > Neither official Woody nor SuSE 7.3 allowed me to use it correctly. I used > ext3 and the system is as stable as a rock! One minor thing I didn't > investigate yet: it doesn't power off at shutdown. And yes, I loaded the > apm.o module.... It is fixed in the new bf2.4 kernel, I forgot to turn off SMP in the first release. SMP confuses APM :( Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Das wahrlich arnoootische daran ist, das wahrscheinlich _alle_ Regulars diesem Thread absolut faziniert folgen, nur traut sich keiner was zu sagen, weil man die beiden ja offiziell im Killfile hat. Alexander Stielau in de.alt.arnooo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
