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debian-installer package

Help text is misleading or inaccurate for boot methods

Bug #66881 reported by Simon Law
14
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
configure-debian (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
debian-installer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson
Ubuntu later

Bug Description

On the desktop CD, the available boot methods are listed as "live" and "memtest86". But there's a graphical boot screen now, which means that the instructions should recommend selecting the right option from the menu.

For the alternate CD, these instructions are even more misleading. It doesn't tell you how to get into expert mode (F6 F6).

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This would require a string freeze exception, so I agreed with mdz to defer it.

Changed in debian-installer:
assignee: nobody → kamion
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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David Balažic (xerces8) wrote :

Aren't you deferring it a bit too much ?
There was a new release in between.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20070308ubuntu31

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debian-installer (20070308ubuntu31) hardy; urgency=low

  * Move to 2.6.24-11 kernels.
  * Update help text translations from Launchpad.
  * Adjust help text to refer to gfxboot UI where appropriate (LP: #66881).
  * Update the syslinux live CD F3 help text to talk about live-install
    rather than live-expert.
  * Document "Check CD for defects" boot option (only for gfxboot, due to
    space constraints).
  * Use <literal> rather than <screen> when referring to the boot: prompt in
    the middle of a sentence, to avoid making translators work with sentence
    fragments.
  * Resync syslinux live CD F1 and F5 help page cross-references with
    help.xml (thanks, Steve Langasek; LP: #151127).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:46:34 +0000

Changed in debian-installer:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Rejecting spurious configure-debian task, apparently created by accident. phiippekret, if you actually have an issue with configure-debian then I suspect you really wanted to file a new bug.

Changed in configure-debian:
status: New → Invalid
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