Quoting Andree Leidenfrost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [Not sure whether you get this via Debian bucktracking, so I CC you...]
Thanks. I indeed do get the bug reports as I'm subscribed to debian-boot. About speed, well I was yesterday in a "let's deal ASAP with installation-reports" mood...We are sooooo late with dealing with reports...:-( > Just to elaborate on this one: It surely says something like 'Loading > module floppy for Linux Floppy each of the three times. Couldn't we do > one hardware detection run and stoe the result? Maybe....but maybe not. This is why I recorded this anyway. > > Give that most user use to hit Enter too quickly there, I'm definitely > > not in favor of this change. > Hm, I don't see the difference with regards to hitting Enter too > quickly: > > Currently: User hits enter and has no name resolution. > > My suggestion: User hits enter and at least *might* have name resolution > in case the gateway is also the name server which you get quite > frequently, e.g. with little firewall/router boxes. This is also why I recorded your suggestion as a separate bug for netcfg. My own advice is not mandatory for sure.... > > You're right about current partitioner module. However, the future > > partitioning tool (partman) has this feature, as well as the > > autopartitioning module. If you're OK, I don't > > record this as a bug. > This is IMHO not related to partitioning. Partitioning is finished once > I quit cfdisk. What I'm referring to is filesystem creation, e.g. > mkfs.ext3 <something> and subsequent mounting. But this belongs to partitioning modules, though of course this is not strictly speaking partitioning. > Note that doing a badblcok scan is potentially time consuming for large > disks and/or slow hardware. My suggestion would to make it optional but > to definitely offer it. An alternative could be to use the badblocks > program (part of package e2fsprogs) and have an additional bootmenu > entry for harddisk scanning. Which translates by a wish for a new module....:-) > > Well, this looks like a pretty specialized demand....Dunno if > > recording a bug will trigger something. > Fair enough. But maybe the bpalogin package could at least be added to > the CD so that allow manual configuration? Wishlist? ;-) I suggest you file a bug report against bpalogin for having it included in one of tasksel tasks. > > This is #229211, extended. > If anything, I'd rather say it's #229211 much reduced (although I agree > with #229211 in regards to presering access to already installed OSes): > > All I'm really after is to have: > > prompt > timeout=20 > > in the installed standard lilo.conf to give me an opportunity to provide > kernel parameters. What I mean is that bot boot loader modules need some improvement for allowing the user to customize them. What I suggest to you as you obviously have great interest in helping out is to look at the individual bug reports I cloned from you installation reports.....and bring comments there. I'm afraid I won't have time enough for doing it myself......The D-I team is definitely a bit too smal for all user wishes..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]