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HEADLINE: improve Rescue Mode in debian-installer DESCRIPTION: How to help users who got problems installing Debian ? The bug reports against d-i shows that p
by zeroheure 9y ago
HEADLINE: improve Rescue Mode in debian-installer
DESCRIPTION: How to help users who got problems installing Debian ? The bug reports against d-i shows that problems are various and unpredictible. So the only way to help is to provide tools for looking around documentation and breaking system.
1. in d-i itself : if something goes bad, propose to save logs (and others output like disk informations) on usb key, on the network, on the internet, etc.
2. add some urls where user can found help
3. look for little improvements when launching Rescue Mode : for example access it through ssh, display disk information (remember this patch bug#798465 ?), suggest some config files and log to look in, etc.
4. provide basical help on d-i tools. For example, why grub-installer can't show 2 lines about options ?
5. everything that can't be achieved because of limited space or Ram should be available in a dedicated page on debian.org
Etc.
These are just selected samples. There is many little rooms for improvements on this point.
DISTRIBUTION: stable and sid
ROLE: sysadmin