On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:45:30AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: | Cameron Patrick wrote: | > - Throughout the installer, the line-drawing characters looked a bit | > messed up. (using "^" for horizontal lines, ">" for corner bits) | | Lack of proper frame buffer, bterm, and fonts stuff on netboot. This has | been fixed in the dailys.
Okay. I was actually kind of glad to see that it wasn't using the frame buffer, it runs incredibly slowly on that machine (reminiscent of 9600 baud serial connections)... Where can I find these daily builds? I found the d-i ports page, but all the links under i386 were broken - the ones on gluck gave 404 Not Found errors, and the ones on people.d.o have the infinite redirect loop problem. | > - It didn't succeed in loading all the modules it wanted to; the culprit | > appears to be "ide-cd". | | Not really a problem, but in the dailys it is less annoying about this | sort of error. You mean you've found a more descriptive error message than "Something must have gone wrong"? :-) | > - There was no way to specify where it downloaded the debian installer | > modules from, or to tell it to use a proxy server. | | This is a new problem to me, AFAIK the "Choose a mirror" menu item | should do that. For some reason, I got the "choose a mirror" menu /after/ it had downloaded the installer, so I could choose the mirror it used for downloading the 'real' .debs, but not for the installer itself. | > - It kept wanting to find a CD drive; there wasn't one, so it couldn't. | > Selecting "No" when it asked whether you wanted to configure a CD did | > nothing. Selecting "Yes" and then "No" when it asked about non-IDE | > non-SCSI CDs took me back to the menu. Surely a network installation | > should be able to work properly without a CD? | | Yeah, this is annoying for all non-CD installs, though you can work | around it. Shouldn't it remember that you don't want to use a CD after you hit No for the first time? Cameron. P.S. Thanks for your detailed reply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
