Thanks for your detailed report. > Despite the fact that network was not configured and there was no way to > get accurate time from ntp server, and despite UTC=no setting in > /etc/default/rcS, d-i changed hardware clock to a wrong value (a few > hours ahead), although the clock was set correctly to local time before > the installation.
During default installs, D-I does not ask the question about the hardware clock being set to UTC or not. So, if you want to have an hardware clock set to local time, you should use medium priority. > I selected Russian key-map during installation, but looks like Russian > font was not installed (or properly configured). Therefore, switching to > Russian in console via right-Ctrl - (this is another inconveniency -- I > hate this way of switching key maps, because I use right-Ctrl for typing > Ctrl+<some_key>) - gave me some fancy characters instead of Russian > letters on the screen. Also I couldn't read Russian text in UTF-8 > encoding on console which should be UTF-8 enabled AFAIK. This is on the installed system, right? For Russian, console-cyrillic should be installed. Unfortunately, we no more have people active in testing Russian in the D-I team, with the required knowledge of specificities of the language rendering. CC'ing Eugenyi Mescheryakov.....can you look at this, eugen? > I have various USB devices connected to my PC. Logs about some of them > always appear after "bor login:" prompt. Looks very unprofessional > although I'm used to unexpected Linux kernel messages on the console. This has nothing to do with the installer, I'm afraid. BTW, I also don't like Linux kernel messages at the console. Probably something to set in syslog stuff, which I never succeeded to find. I agree this is pretty annoying. > Besides that, backspace key stops working after invalid > username/password combination, and it becomes possible to move the > cursor over the whole screen. Nothing to do with the installer. Please investigate it, but this is indeed very probably due to non ASCII input in the login. All the remaining does not really belong to the installer and should be reported against the relevant packages..... > > I heard about 'script' utility before, and wanted to create a log of my > initial system set up, but 'script' killed the log when I ran it the > second time. In other words 'script' should not overwrite default > 'typescript' file, but rather create a backup of already present one. I > understand though that this is not d-i deficiency. > > Configuring USB ADSL modem (via eciadsl, for the first time in Linux) > was a real pain for me. I had to reboot back and forth between Windows > with working ADSL Internet connection and fresh installed Debian Etch > without Internet connection to dig for ADSL configuration information > (which turned to be very vague from newcomer's point of view) and > manually download required Debian packages and theirs dependencies. I > believe average non-technical PC users had no chances to overcome this > major obstacle of conecting Debian to the Internet via USB ADSL modem. > > /etc/apt/sources.list was not updated with any Debian mirror line, > (presumably due to failed network configuration). So I had to search it > in apt documentation examples, and guess correct domain name of the > nearest mirror. > > I wish 'gpm' and 'less' packages were the part of netinst CD. > > I wish I could configure console "beep" sound during installation so > that my wife didn't get angry about "beeping" through filesystem at 2am, > and I needn't look for 2 year old notes with magic escape sequnces for > the "beep".
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