Package: installation-reports Severity: normal This is a standard Debian Installer report. However, it is not really interesting as is : everything work quite well and all d-i problems are indeed known problems.
The problem is elsewhere: ALL DD, please go to the end of the report and look at the number of screens users are shown. Twenty-Seven screens, several of these belonging to obscure packages Joe User is even not aware of. This report will lead to subsequent bug reports against the given packages asking them to *lower* the debconf priority they use. I will make another installation with ALL tasks selected in tasksel. I'm already prepared to a nightmare..... PLEASE fellow DD's, STOP ABUSING DEBCONF. Avoid notes about software upgrades when no upgrade is done. Avoid using high priority questions for anything that has a reasonable default. Stop thinking that your package is the most important in the distro and thus needs prompting for each and every setting it has. Or at least, do this at low priority. INSTALL REPORT Debian-installer-version: beta2 businesscard ISO i386 uname -a: Date: 2004/01/20 Method: Network, proxied Machine: VmWare 4 Processor: Memory: Root Device: SCSI Root Size/partition table: Empty disk Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [O] Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: (French as installation language) Problems fixed in CVS: - Keyboard chooser in english - Detecting hardware incorrectly translated to "dÃtecter le matÃriel rÃseau" - Create xxx file system not translated - Final keyboard is US layout (nasty bug in console-data, fixed) Selected tasks: Desktop environment Linux Standard Base X window system Broadband Internet connection Mail server Conventional Unix Server (not sure) Web server C and C++ French environment Custom kernel compilation Config screens: Format: Xs, Yq, Zd, Tu s=number of screens shown (aka how many times to press Enter!) d=number of questions with reasonable defaults which IMHO shouldn't have been asked (guess what "d" is for...) u=number of untranslated questions n=number of useless notes - pcmcia-cs : 3s 1d 2u 0n - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n - nfs-common : 1s 0d 0u 1n - ssh : 1s 0d 0u 1n - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n - apache-common : 1s 0d 0u 1n - libpaper1 : 1s 0d 1u 1n #226254 - efax : 2s 0d 2u 2n - fetchmail : 2s 0d 0u 2n - gdm : 1s 0d 0u 0n - libc-client2002debian : 1s 1d 1u 0n - xserver-xfree86 : 7s 0d 1u 0n (no autodetect by default) (mouse autodetected) - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n (bug?) - libc-client2002debian : 1s 1d 1u 0n - dictionaries-common : 1s 1d 0u 0n - exi4-config : 2s 0d 0u 0n _____________ TOTAL 27s 7d 8u 8n General problem : when screens are too long, debconf dialog interface shows a right cursor and a OK button. No novice user will then type "Down" for seeing the rest of the screen...and thus will miss the last part of the shown information. The "OK" button should be something like a "More" button and should by default allow scrolling though the text. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.6.0 #4 Sat Jan 17 10:16:28 CET 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]