Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.

[Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>]

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Hi, I went through the installer looking for anything negative I could 
say about it :) hope there is something helpful here:


Unrelated driver bug: installer was just a black screen until I rebooted 
with nomodeset:  https://paste.debian.net/1166581/
Even with nomodeset, I get an error about no UMS supported in radeon, 
but it doesn't stop anything.


Languages listed in the language selection are sometimes in English, 
Rarely in the native language. What's the difference between "Mandarin 
Chinese" and "Chinese"?. I guess this just requires translation data. 
The names of languages in their respective languages is something that 
already exists in a million different projects already, can we just copy 
them in?
Even when choosing Mandarin Chinese, nothing in the installer is in 
Mandarin. I guess one also needs to choose the final system language too.
Random thought: could we adapt the installer to use the same sentences 
from an existing installer, like the ubuntu one, so that all the 
translations can be copied in for free? All the basic quesions like 
please choose a password are surely shared between these installers.

The installer allows choosing the installation USB its self as a target, 
which I imagine would result in a disaster? People can shoot themselves 
in the foot if they want I guess?

No indication of what buttons one needs to use what: space, enter, tab, 
nor that there are other TTYs with documentation and how to get to them.

Enter selects and takes you to the next line when its an input box, but 
it does not select and take you out of it to the button below if it is 
the bottom most checkbox. one must then move to the tab button.

Down arrow in a checkbox list takes you down to the bottom of the list, 
but then it will not jump out to the button below. It does take you from 
Ok to Exit though, like left-right, but it wont cross the barriers.

space doesnt select menu items, but does select and move down checkbox 
lists, and selects buttons

I found my self switching between enter, tab, and space to get through, 
by going of intuition and thinking "do what i mean".

Perhaps Esc should escape when it makes sense.


After getting through the install with encrypted root, The install 
finally fails trying to install grub with:

|Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: this GPT 
partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be 
possible. grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is 
required for RAID and LVM install. |



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