Well I just tried the sid_d-i install images for today, May 24, 2004, and I must say that I am impressed, and grateful to all the folks who have been donating their time to this project.
This time it worked for everything except one thing: I had to drop to a shell and udpkg -i <dhcp package>. I went back to the dhcp configuration and it went smoothly from there. The first suggestion I have is for yaboot-installer. It found the two bootable partitions that I had, but it only listed the extremely long and undecipherable(for a newer user) /dev/ide/host0/.../lun0/part(2|3) names. Perhaps this list should include the partition names. Which brings me to another point. Although I'm quite capable of partitioning the drives myself, I hate doing it. I'd much prefer to have a tool figure it out for me based on some heuristics. Having said that: I _love_ the guided partitioner. So I used that again to partition the drive and it added the correct yaboot partition for me. Couldn't the partitioner and yaboot installer come up with a quick way for them to communicate about the correct bootstrap partition. Perhaps automatically name the yaboot partition "bootstrap" which is what is recommended almost everywhere that I've seen. Then the yaboot-installer could do a quick search for a bootable partition named "bootstrap" and default to this. The only other suggestion I have is for the partitioner. When the user chooses "free space" for the automated partitioning, perhaps a quick search could be done for a useable swap partition which already exists and ask about using this. This turned out to be a bit longer than I originally planned, but there it is. Thanks again, Lakin Wecker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
