I haven't yet actually made my n810 boot debian, so I'm not sure what'll jump out at me once it does ... hopefully this install attempt will be the successful one

Swap configuration in the installer would be a nice touch, especially for people with limited *nix experience.

It might be nice to have a couple more window managers available as metapackages. IceWM is a fairly logical choice since it's so light; perhaps fluxbox would be a good alternative (provided we remap lclick to open the root menu, easily done in ~/.fluxbox/keys). I used IceWM several years ago on an Ipaq that ran debian, it worked quite well with considerably fewer resources than we have on the NITs. Again, I haven't actually been able to play with the xfce setup yet, but lighter is almost always better on a device like this.

cfisk still doesn't seem to want to work for me- not sure if it just doesn't like my sd card or if it's a problem with the installer. Not a big deal if you can partition on another machine, but it'd be nice if it worked.

It'd be _really_ nice to have the option to 'r to retry' in addition to 'enter to close window' throughout the installer. Getting all the way to 'apt-get install nit-env-stskeeps' and having to start over because some package didn't build correctly is ...well, not a real happy thing

Perhaps another useful thing would be an option to build and test the local repository before starting the installation, to make sure all of the packages did build properly.