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Also in the partition department: I would recommend the usage of GB as default unit instead of MB since the extra precision is just confusing and harddrives are always measured in GB.

I'm 3km from my test install right now so you will have to forgive me asking another thing that's so easily checked: Is Preload included in the default software selection?

Yep... sorry dear testers, another ISO's coming. Count 12 hours.

• Removed startupmanager
• Installer automatically performs "dpkg --configure -a" at the end of the installation, no error messages in mintUpdate/synaptic for the user.

It looks like this ISO would have been OK for a public release, but if we can prevent people from seeing these two little error messages, then all the better.

It looks like this ISO could be released publicly, we're only facing minor annoyances here...

... I'm removing startupmanager and attempting to reconfigure dpkg in the installer automatically, so I send you a newer ISO.

Startupmanager should be removed, it doesn't work very well (fails to detect the menuentry title) and it's only there because of plymouth, which isn't installed in LMDE...

Trashcan works for me, both live and post-install.

dpkg bug confirmed.

Limitations:

• Installer only allows user to use 1 HDD

Bugs to be confirmed:

• Trashcan doesn't work?
• dpkg left in bad state by installer?

Unable to remove a DVD using the physical button on the computer. One must first unmount the DVD in Nautilus or umount or some other tool before it's possible to remove the DVD.

Another issue:

• Totem does not have the special playlists that exist in the Main Edition.

One very handy playlist is the YouTube playlist which allows you to search for movies on YouTube and play them directly in Totem instead of having to use the horrible flash player.

There is no test case for this yet but there should be since it's a possibly reoccuring issue in all releases:

• Middleclick in Firefox activates scroll

In it's current state Firefox is set to the default Linux behaviour which is to go to the page that is in the middleclick pastebin, cannot remember the exact term, instead of starting the scroll behaviour that is default on all other platforms.

The second time launching mintUpdate there was no error.

On another note. When I launch Synaptic I see a fancy new dialoug, snooping around I found what caused it:

su-to-root -X -c

Now that may be interesting when launching mint-update. Being able to save the authentication in the keyring - well it may be handy. I don't know.

I can ditto what Suhana said; Mintupdate fails with the fallowing error:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Since my system is still installing I haven't been able to confirm this on an installed version of LMDE, but the trashcan is not working. Everything is deleted permanently, and not moved to the trashcan as it should be.

And the last page of the installer, the summary, should contain links to the earlier parts of the installer in the form of (edit)-links. So that if the user wants to change one part of her setup, she can press the edit-link, make her changes, and then when pressing forward return directly to the summary.

This avoids the user having to back trough all the steps of the installation to find the page she wanted to change.

@Rovanion: We'll probably need to send that upstream. We'll need to form a strategy to collaborate on upstream bugs with Debian. Launchpad makes the link for us with Ubuntu.. I'll look into that.

Low priority bug:

• When holding down the print-screen button, more than one copy of the print-screen dialoug appears. This became a crash-issue for me since my keybord decided to disconnect while I pressed the print-screen button so the key-release was never sent. The result being that lets say about 100 print-screen-dialouges were launched, eating up my RAM, resulting in Linux crashing.

I propose that the print-screen-dialoug is not to be launched until key-release, and not on key-press.

Fixes since last ISO:

• Installer now checks the configuration of Grub, retries 5 times if necessary and alerts users in case of a problem.
• Installer fails graciously. Partitions aren't held and unmountable anymore. Installer can therefore be run a second time if necessary.
• Call to grub-mkconfig changed in installer. Grub configuration now succeeds in UI mode. (trace of it logged to /var/log/live-installer-grub-output.log).
• Installer "edit partition" dialog more user-friendly. Preselects ext4 when format is selected, blanks it when not. Partitions which aren't formatted are shown using their description.
• Installer partitions graphics doesn't lag anymore, redraws itself automatically, even when dialogs/windows are placed on top of it.
• Audio CDs launch Rhythmbox
• Fix for Firefox's bar look and feel with Shiki
• Live Desktop dir now belongs to live user
• Live bashrc follows default one (green color in terminal)
• Added evolution-data-server, About Me works now.