thought I'd take a second and comment on the 6.2 rc 1.2 (030400) install
process while it formats a couple gigs of real slow dasd....
1. I hope all that "driver disk" crap is explained real well in the final
docs. (1.1. I hope there are docs, I couldn't find even draft docs.) Took
a few minutes before we thought to see what cancel would do... expected it
to exit the installer, was pleasantly surprised when it continued on. Kinda
a hard hit since it's the first thing you see after booting, same thing
goes for the bit latter on about "I haven't installed any special drivers"
or whatever. (this was a cd boot btw)
2. if the gui installer is going to be default then can we please assume
640x480 minimum? why the hell did it insist on 320x240... the text was
*very* difficult to read when it was anti-aliased at that resolution.
3. the check boxes need more obvious distinction between "on" and "off",
it may be that this was a laptop, and the resolution as noted before was
horrible, but shade of grey that filled the radio and check boxes was the
same either way, and matched the background... the only clue was if the
top was a dark line or the bottom was a dark line; and that needed some
playing to figure out.
4. if I'm in the detailed package selections and realise I had a desktop
selected I didn't want (ie both gnome and kde when I only wnat one) and back
up to reselect it why do *all* my package selections (i.e. servers,
development environs) get reset to the default?
5. If I can marquee select several icons in the detailed package selections
then I would expect that I could (de)select them all at once as well, not
have it applied to one at random.
6. I doubt you could have found a better icon for "kernel hacking" no matter
how long you looked. :)
7. a few of the packages descriptive text (jikes comes to mind) are out of
date with their actual rpm's decsription.
8. more differentiation is needed between dhcpd and dhcpcd, they currently
have the exact same description text! and are on different panels (and the
dhcpd was labeled just dhcp) at the bare minimum one needs to say "servers
only" and the other "users (or clients) need this" (I doubt the average
newbie understands what a daemon is... we don't want more IS departments
getting their panties in a bunch because some idiot manager installed a
dhcp server on their laptop and is now happily roving around the company
plugging into the network in conference rooms and other people's offices
and in general making a mess of their infrastructure now... do we?)
9. why do I get an option to skip making a boot disk after I choose not
to install LILO and asked for a boot disk earlier? DANGER WILL ROBINSON
DANGER....
well... the install finished. $#!^ . . . looks like tommorow night
I get to test the rescue mode . . . . anyone know what 0x002 error
code means from the boot disk? :{ -=Chris
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I want a binary interface to the brain!
Today's opto-mechanical digital interfaces are just too slow!
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