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Installing Buster (improvements)

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Hello,

today I installed Buster on my laptop.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

-- 

K.D.J.

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Installing Buster (improvements) Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@mailbox.org> - 2020-06-30 22:40 +0200
  Re: Installing Buster (improvements) Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-06-30 23:50 +0200
    Re: Installing Buster (improvements) Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@mailbox.org> - 2020-07-01 14:30 +0200
      Re: Installing Buster (improvements) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-01 17:20 +0200
      Re: Installing Buster (improvements) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-02 03:10 +0200
  Re: Installing Buster (improvements) "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-01 08:30 +0200

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