Sure, that's fine, I don't actually care about the speed as such, it's just that that happens to be part of the finish-install script and I wanted to check that it worked.
A patch recently went into d-i upstream to fix this anyway (see the linked bug), so we should get it soon. ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #394970 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394970 ** Also affects: finish-install (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394970 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- no console started on cell machine https://launchpad.net/bugs/72832 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs