Shawn Walker wrote: > Greetings, > > Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the new installer (b70). > > Personally, I never had any problems using the old one, but the new one does > look much better. > > Things that I thought were great: > * Relatively few questions asked > * Sane slice size defaults for whole disk option (In my case, 232GiB > partition was split into four slices, 15GiB for root, 15GiB for second_root, > 3.1GiB for swap, 198GiB for /export/home for a system with 2GiB of memory) > * Automatic creation of second root for LU > * Overall Look and Feel > * "Felt" snappier than the old installer > * After first boot, I installed the skge driver for my onboard gigabit > ethernet, and nwam picked up everything via dhcp on the next reboot >
Thanks, Shawn! > Things I suspect are known issues: > * Help is not yet complete (such as going to the help menu in the debug > terminal) Since we've got an extremely minimal Gnome environment, that doesn't surprise me. > * Warnings in debug terminal window from the window manager about the > terminal setting min size of 1 for window, but also setting not resizeable Known, I believe. > * System has unqualified hostname warnings on first boot (is this related to > the installer not having sane initial defaults?) > You mean sendmail's whining? There are various opinions on what ought to be done about that; mine is that sendmail ought to be disabled by default (desktop systems have no need of it that I can see), or that it should send those messages to its logfile rather than the console. > Suggestions: > * Display the log in a monospaced font when the user clicks the 'show log' > (don't remember what it is labeled exactly) button at the end of installation I'll let Frank respond to this... > > Questions: > * Is there a way to run the detection tool from the installer via a simple > button? (I may be an idiot and have just overlooked this) Nope, because it's not there at all. Future enhancement. Dave
