Joe Holden wrote:
Guys,

This should really be reverted to sysinstall until the new installer is at least in a state where it consistently works... the most important part of a new users experience is the installer and the few new installs I have done lately I've just installed 8.2 and upgraded from there as the new installer is terribly buggy.

Few things:

- On my installs at least, if there is an unknown ftp connection problem the installer will just bail and say it has been aborted - this consistently happens when ftp.de is selected

- there is no method of stepping back through the install

- If a dhcp lease request times out manual configuration isn't offered
Another one I've just encountered several times:

For some reason the output for setting root password has new lines and lots of space between the various bits of text and isn't taking any input (see http://i.imgur.com/lTP5b.png)

The lack of installation progress or emergency shell on another terminal is also something that I think should be considered - being able to see whats going on and getting error output from the commands the installer is running is invaluable.


I realise that a lot of work has gone into it and it's nice and new, but really unless it's finished it shouldn't be the default.

Thanks,
J
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