Jurij Smakov wrote: > [1] One minor problem which I encountered is triggered, when the chosen > mirror is bad (in my case the mirror I have chosen did not carry sparc > packages). I was then presented by a screen with an informational > message and three options: "Retry", "Change mirror", and "Cancel". > When choosing "Cancel", I was returned back to the very same screen > (does not seem correct), but I was able to get out using the > "Change mirror" option.
This is fixed in net-retriever version 0.33. > [2] A more serious problem occured after reboot. Even though I was installing > over a serial console, installer failed to recognize it, it seems. It > activated the usual 6 virtual consoles, however failed to activate > one for a serial port. As a result after the completion of configuration > I received a bunch of messages from init about getty respawning too > quickly and was left without a working console to login. Booting manually > with init=/bin/sh and editing inittab to start an mgetty on a serial > console fixed the problem. I think this has probably been fixed by prebaseconfig 0.60. joshk? > One more minor quirk which I've noticed is an error message from apt-setup > (package base-config). The problem is the code snippet from it around line > 326: > > if [ -n $COUNTRY ]; then > db_set apt-setup/country $COUNTRY > fi > > For multi-word country names (like US, for example) this will produce an error: > > /usr/sbin/apt-setup: line 326: [: United: binary operator expected > > The correct way is to surround references to $COUNTRY by quotes. I'll file > a bug about it for base-config. Thanks, that has been fixed. -- see shy jo
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