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Re: Installing Buster (improvements)

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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.

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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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