package: installer This applies to the current installer image debian-live-10.7.0-i386-cinnamon+nonfree.iso
running the current installer I got to "installation failed" and went back to the main installer menu. There were three options listed under "save debug logs" 1) floppy 2) web 3) mounted file system #1 - gimmie a break. they're extinct. #2 - it says a web server was started, but no host is apparent at the quoted ip address - which is the one I assigned it earlier in the installation. One of the contributing causes to my installation failing was *probably* that the native wifi wasn't recognised, and the networking in the installer was nonfunctional. #3 - fails with a red screen background using the offered default /mnt -at this point, the file system has been trashed and I have no idea what might be a valid file name other than /mnt. From the shell, /mnt is reported as 100% full, so that could account for the failure. Later, I discovered that the info was *already* written to /var/logs/. That might have been nice to mention. Or even offer to view them directly. -- one of the choices in the installation menu is "check the integrity of the cdrom" nice idea, but this is a stick install, and trying the check anyway just complains about the absence of the cdrom. Elsewhere in the installer, all the verbiage uses "cd" o "cdrom" even though this was a memory stick install, so I had every reason to expect that "check integrity" was a reasonable thing to try. -- Generally, the installer is the first point of contact that a newb would have with linux, and this interaction is a pretty awful introduction.
