> partman-auto: This machine didn't have free space on the hard disk, so > when partman-auto showed its menu during the startup of the > partitioner there were only two options: automatically partition the > whole drive and custom partitioning. The problem is that the default > option was the automatical partitioning of the whole drive rather then > the custom partitioning.
Hmm, is this a bug? It will lead to the whole drive being autopartitioned in noninteractive installs, but that's arguably a good thing. > partman: The smileys are invisible so I could not see which partition > is used and how it is used. This is because of missing characters in > the loaded font. You can add them to build/graphic.utf. I'd forgotten about those smileys.. > partman-partitioning: In order to free space for the new install I > decided to resize an ext3 partition. The operation finished > successfuly but almost all the time the progress bar was at 0% and I > didn't know when this (quiet long) operation would stop. I assume you know about this one better than I. > partconf-mkfstab: the generated /target/etc/fstab didn't contain entry > for the swap space. Partman had generated correct file > /var/lib/partconf/fstab.d/partman with swap space included, but in > /target/etc/fstab the swap entry was omited. This has been fixed in the meantime. > base-installer: The default kernel image was 386. This is a safe > default, but a better had to be chosen (686 on this machine). base-installer goes by /proc/cpuinfo, and looks for " Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4"* before installing -686 kernels. You have a PII. I'm not sure why we don't use the -686 kernel on what the package description says its for: PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. Seems like we should.. > base-installer: During the kernel download the message on the screen > is "Installing the kernel ..." (or something like that). The problem > is that the download can be quiet slow, the user is not informed what > is going on so he/she could think that the installer has crashed. I agree, we need a second-order progress bar here, even if it's only a "Downloading kernel (5%)" with an updating number. > grub-installer: The generated boot menu included only the newly > installed Debian system. There was also another Debian installation > on this machine and it was not included in the menu. One possible > place to discover the existing operating systems is partman because > this is necessary for example in order to provide the user with the > option to upgrade an existing Linux system (not necessary Debian). > However there are many different boot-loaders, so we have to find how > partman can make the information about the operating systems available > to all boot loader installers. Sounds like a good idea for further development. We have a *lot* of complaints about grub not including entries for existing DOS operating systems. > /var/log/partman was about 250kB and could be even bigger. This can > be a problem on machines with small RAM. Only the parts before swapon are a significant problem, but I agree that it would be good to trim that down. -- see shy jo
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