Package: installation Severity: wishlist
The Debian install is lengthy and requires user input throughout the process. I started the install (on my multiple O/S PC) but had to interrupt it to do some Windows work. When I rebooted, the install didn't restart from where it had been stopped, didn't use all the (600+) files that had been downloaded and had no record of the responses I had made (particularly the selected packages). It would be nice, once the root filesystem has been set up, to have a install control file that contains the necessary information entered by the user and the last successful step reached. (Alternatively, the install control file could be located on ANY available filesystem.) Then the install process could have install interrupt points, restart points and some mechanism to recognize/locate them. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
