https://lwn.net/Articles/58074/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Two new Debian installers". en-us Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:59:59 +0000 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:59:59 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/58448/ https://lwn.net/Articles/58448/ wolfrider --For now, I'm installing Debian with Knoppix CD's - and looking heavily at Mepis.<br> Sat, 15 Nov 2003 06:35:12 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/58353/ https://lwn.net/Articles/58353/ ametlwn <p> <cite> Even worse, it does not provide a way to go back and change options during configuration. For example, if a user forgets the distinction between the various Exim configuration options, they cannot cycle back to re-read the descriptions of Exim's default configurations. </cite></p> While you are configuring exim4 (which afaik is suppposed to be sarge's default MTA) you can go back to the previous exim-question, it depends on the debconf-frontend how this function is invoked. - The Gnome frontend has a &lt;Back&gt;-button, the dialog-frontend uses &lt;cancel&gt; for this purpose and the readline-frontend uses Pageup (or ctrl-u). The going back is limited to the questions of the currently configured package, though. Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:00:24 +0000