On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Mircea Ciocan wrote:
> Hi, my name is Mircea, I'm from Romania and tried to install the 24 dec
> version.
> Here is my experience and observations:
>
> Background:
> Me: Long time SLackware user and willing to try something SysVish.
> Machine: PII-375, 128MB, Riva ZX-128, HD Quantum Eclipse 10 Gb, PS2
> mouse, sondcard Creative Labs PCI 64V(es1371).
>
> I d'loaded the 24 dec floppy image and started a ftp install.
>
> The boot procedure was ok, I select ftp when prompted and proceed.
> Problems encounterd in stage 1:
> 1.1) I have 2 net cards in the test machine ( A Tulip 10/100 and a
> Realteck 8029 NE2000 PCI). While both was recognized OK the Tulip card
> was found first and configured, I think is a good thing to let the user
> choose on a multi interface machine what card to use.
> 1.2) Somehow the cards was configured and network started BEFORE the lo
> interface was configured, so on the log console the darned message
> "Neighbour table overflow" was spited, it seems to me that is a pretty
> harmless one, but still belive that lo interface is good to be
> configured first of all.
> 1.3) When stage 2 file is downloaded a progress bar will be nice, for
> the people with a slowish conexion it seems that the system is frozen.
>
> After that the stage 2 showed the glamouros graphical screen, mice was
> recognized and I start the initial configurations.
>
> Problems encounterd in stage 2:
>
> 2.1) The following message was spited on the log console:
> Couldn't open RGB_DB /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb
Ignore it.
> 2.2)And a potentialy dangerous one ( we don't want to be haX0red when
> we do a network install :):
> Error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Ignore it, the defaults really are ok.
> 2.3) And surprise: NO ROOT USER !!! and glib complain:
> Glib-warning: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No such user 0
and again, ignore it.
> 2.4) Maybe related, GTK cryed:
> GDK-warning: shmget failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm
> line 772
FBDev doesn't support it on vesafb. Likely not at all but i'm not so
positive about that.
Ignore it.
> After selecting language and keyboard the following problems were
> spotted ( or spitted :):
>
> 3.1) Gtk complaining that glib was compiled without locale support:
> Gdk-warning: locale not supported by C library at
> /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 240.
Ignore it, unless of course it's not displaying the right language and
such.
> 3.2) When user is prompted about selecting Normal, Server, Desktop the
> help window from bottom does not change the content to explain these
> choices, it retain the previous content.
Dadou?
> 3.3) I find that you can click on the greened LEDs from left but a Back
> button here and there would be a nice thing.
big pita, how about maybe for the next release :)
> All went well until selecting installing partitions inclusive ( they
> were allready defined) but after formating the following message was
> spitted:
>
> 4.1) A maybe important file missing or an overzelous condition
> reported:
> Error reading file /mnt/root/auto_inst.cfg.pl at
> /usr/bin/perl-install/install_any.pm line 455
I've been wondering about this myself. (just looked again) And am still
wondering.
What the h*ll is it doing Pixel..?
> After all that went well enough, the package list was about to be
> downloaded and dispached but few issues creept out:
>
> 5.1) Again a longish download and search without progress bar, or
> "please wait", and system seems to be frozen for a while.
To mis-quote Pixel when i ask the same thing,
"If you knew how much bloat that added you'd quit asking"
I quit asking for them obviously, this is where the "please wait" dialogs
came in
> 5.2 IMPORTANT, a LOT of those messages was spitted on the log console:
> unknown entry <category>:<package name>(in compssList)
> unknown category <category> (in compssUsers)
> There was more than a screen full with those messages and the category
> and packages varied ftom text, console to XFree86
These are for the most part ignorable.
> 5.3) When was the time to refine selection of the packages, the MUST
> HAVE one like rpm and sysvinit are painted with UGLY doubled strabismic
> letters, can we use just colors plizzz ;).
Both colors and the italics have special meaning, should say in the help
window
> Then the install of selected packages started ( hey where is the
> Caldera tetris for sweeten the screen staring and waiting :) and when
> will be finished I'll keep you informed ;)
Well for starters, tetris has some copyrights we aren't going to get into.
But mainly we couldn't decide what to put everybody wanted something else
so we decided to leave the cpu for installing. for the record my vote was
TV card support :-)
> HTH
>
> Mircea C.
>
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