On 6/30/20 1:36 PM, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
Hello,
today I installed Buster on my laptop.
It would be very helpful to know which of the many install ISOs you used.
As usual it ran very well (at the end). But I would like to suggest
the follwing improvements to the Graphical install:
a) At some point the process informed me, that a firmware module is
missing and asked whether I would like to supply it from a disk, a USB
stick or from the net. As I had this module from another installation
on a USB stick I stuck it into the laptop. The install process did not
even look at it; it was looking only for network devices.
How do we know that "The install process did not even look at it"?
BTW: in the future if you expect the need for firmware I suggest using
one of the many unofficial non-free firmware ISOs.
<https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware>
b) Before I started the installation I defined a partition of 150GB on
the disk (SSD) for Debian. At some point in the process the system
informed me that I did not provide a swap partition (I had hoped the
installation process would allocate that automatically from the space
provided) and asked whether I want to define that partition.
This is normal, you have many options. Sometimes swap is not wanted.
As there was some room left on the disk I was ready to do it. The
system asked for the data of where that partition should lie in terms
of 'cylinder/sector/head' (or something like it). Now usually I am not
concerned with this type of data and even more so as I was installing
debian on an SSD. As there was no way I could solve this problem
directly I had to abort the installation, define the swap partition
and restart the installion process.
It is unfortunate that you did not read any of the Debian Wiki install
manuals and tutorials before you started.
I suggest you start reading here:
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/installmanual
Couldn't that be done more user friendly? Especially in view of the
fact that I assume that Graphical Install is not supposed to be an
Expert installation.
That was a poor assumption. Again, the install manual covers that.
c) When entering the passwords for root and for the user there are
always two lines: one for entering the password, the other where one
clicks if one wants to see the password.
I suggest that these two line be switched: the first for the
selection for seeing the password, the second for entering the
password. Again a little increase in user friendlyness.
There are tons of ISOs and methods. Best of luck next time.