Hey everyone.
I downloaded the RC1 ISOs over the weekend and attempted an install
last night. I'm very glad I started to read the old messages of
this list yesterday through the archives as it helped me get past
a few problems.
First, the supplied kernel images allowed me to boot mostly properly.
Because this is an older SCSI machine, I had to load two modules by hand.
One was for the SCSI controlled itself (I don't remember the name). The
other was the MESH module. Once both of these modules were loaded
the SCSI CD was found and the installation would begin.
Now we get to my problems. The display during the install is awful
in one of two ways depending on if I check the 'Force video' option on
BootX. I either get a nice looking display but the ADB mouse responds
extremely slowly or I get a squished display with odd colors, the images
wrap strangely on the screen, but the mouse functions fine. When the
mouse is unresponsive, the keyboard also responds poorly (very, very
slow).
I get the same behavior with the on board (Chaos) controller as well as
with a Matrox Millenium II PCI card.
I also noticed several messages on the first console. The same message
kept scrolling by which basically said the default locale was set
incorrectly in a gtk module (perl I think?) and it could not find
the correct information. I doubt that has anything to do with the
problems I have but it could be something to clean up later.
Thanks.
Josh
