Joe Drew wrote: > At first, DHCP failed since the Debian installer didn't detect my > Airport card.
Is this a hardware detection problem that we should do something about? Are you sure it didn't detect the card, because the part about it then running dhcp implies that it did find the card: > This resulted in the screen background turning red and a > mis-rendered dialogue with no context and a message "Feel free to retry." > This should be changed to at least mention that DHCP failed, and > probably say something about connecting cables and/or consulting with > system administrator about configuration. As it is there's no context: > what exactly are you retrying? This is a bug in cdebconf which has been fixed in the daily builds. There is a message there, but cdebconf does not display it properly. Better dhcp support is in progress, so it will just fall back to manual net config if there is no dhcp server. > Every so often when I switch between consoles, my screen turns red (and > then will turn blue again for no clear reason). I've seen this too, it is some minor bug in bogl-bterm. Probably has to do with alternate screens (like you get in an exterm). > I had previously tried (and failed) to install debian-installer. As such > I didn't reinitialize any disks. When the base system tried installing, > I got an error "couldn't download exim4." I was unable to proceed. Known bug, filed many times in the BTS. > Comments on tasksel: It doesn't follow the UI of the rest of the > installer (with the default button to the bottom right). Nothing in the second stage does, really. > It also seems > overly fragile; it got confused when I pushed an arrow key and space bar > at the same time, and quit (dropping down to apt(itude?) to grab the > selected packages. Perhaps you pressed the right arrow key, which selects "Finish", and then immediatly the space bar, which presses the "button". > The default debconf priority is medium, and no chance was given to me to > raise it. I certainly don't think the default should be medium given the > current debian-installer default of high or critical (or whatever it > is). I agree, I am considering changing it to use whatever priority d-i used, but this is of course a large and scarey change. -- see shy jo
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