Dear D-I developers, I have tested the debian-install first beta. I have used the sarge-i386-businesscard.iso. I have a IDE disk a IDE CDROM an windbond-840 ethernet card and a SCSI card (aic7xx) with nothing attached.
Here my experience: I have entered `net' at boot prompt. The `Choose language' do nothing, but if I run it, the `Detect network hardware' will prompt me whether it should try to detect hardware or not. If I do not run `Choose language', `Detect network hardware' directly process to detect hardware The probe find my hardware (floppy,windbond-840,ide-disk,ide-cd) but then ask me for options or a lot of module irrelevant to my system. It finish with `Something has gone wrong'. Then it proceed with the `Configure network via DHCP'. This one is really painful, since it lock the install for a long time since I have no DHCP server, but I was not offered to skip this stage and go directly to 'Configure a static network'. I think 'Configure a static network' asks question in the wrong order. In a lot of case, hostname, domainname are not required for installing. (and a lot of people don't have a domainname either. Even the DNS server is not always needed. So it should ask first: the IP the netmask the gateway At this point, I found no way to install in a loop device (boot-floppies supported that) so I had to give up the install. What is lacking is: --- dd (to create the file)[Also it is our eponym program] --- losetup (to create the block device) --- the d-i equivalent of b-f 'use a premounted partition'. I have always been a big fan of the `boot-floppies' installer. I hope I will soon be fan of 'debian-installer'. Keep up the great work! Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
