Hi all, during the OpenLanParty in Milano, we played a little bit with the new debian installer. We submit here some comments about our testing.
1. from the udeb list we would like to remove the name of the package since the label isn't completely readable and probably; 2. on the same screen, we would like to 'tab' from the module list to the 'continue' button instead of the actual 'go back' button. On the same screen, if you select some modules and then press go-back, then you select once again the 'module selection list' then you do not see as selected the modules selected during the first visit to that screen; 3. we tested the installation on many old machines that had old/dirty cdrom devices. On that machines we got read errors that were shown as 'integrity check failure on package ...'. We think that it could be useful if the installer could check an md5sum/crc of the disc. The corrected md5sum/crc might be put on the disc label; 4. during the static network configuration (choice the domain name, the DNS, ...) it isn't possible to select the 'go back' button; 5. the menu item 'detect CDROM devices and mount ...' does not detect our CD on a 'HP Omnibook XT6200'. Calling hw-detect-full we get the error 'Unknown MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8175' on the 4th console; 6. selecting the dhcp3 udeb the DHCP network isn't configured. We found a message on the 4th console: 'execve (/etc/dhcp3/dhcpit-script,..): Not a directory'; 7. selecting 'partitioner' we get the message 'Failed to partition the disc /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc.' just after the selection of the disc . At this point there is noway to go on since the user interface is blocked. We may only switch to differentent console, but we cannot select neighter 'continue' nor 'go back'; 8. on a Acer Aspire 1314LC from item menu 'configure the network via dhcp' the NIC isn't recognized (a Via Technologies VT6102 rhine-II) so a message is printed suggesting to go back, while the user interface permits only to continue. If the module 'ethdetect' is selected on the first screen then DHCP is run correctly but then it isn't possible to go back; 9. when on the screen of 'selection language' it isn't possible to 'go back'; 10. the partitioner module complains about a missing libslang.so.1 library while in the /lib there is only libslang.so.1-UTF8. Giuseppe Sacco Emanuele Rocca Fabrizio G. Ficca (OpenLabs cazzarola) Francesco Donadon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
