"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just did a fresh install of oxygen on a 2GB disk here. Did a network
> install, using rpmfind.net's mirror. Here are some data points:
>
> - For god's sake include sawmill for those of us that do not think
> Enlightenment is worth anywhere near it's bloat factor.
>
> Probably too late for this, as we are in a feature freeze, I understand.
>
> - When net installing it should ask which ethernet interface to use.
>
> I have two ethernet cards, the Internet interface served by DHCP. The
> install should ask which interface I want to use for the install if it
> detects more than one.
won't change this for 7.0, hopefully there in 7.1 :)
(i have already done the same for cdroms, give me more time!)
>
> - Video resolution sucks bigtime.
>
> After selecting video modes I got an interlaced mode at 1280x1024 even
> though I selected my MAG DX1795 monitor which can do 1280x1024 at 60Hz
> NI easily on my Matrox Millenium II.
>
strange, that's XFree who chooses the resolution to use...
> - gnorpm errors with a dialog box that says "cannot open file
> /var/lib/rpm/nameindex.rpm: invalid argument".
>
> I have some recollection that this is a problem I had even on Mandrake
> 6.1 after installing the most recent "rpm" binary from Cooker.
>
> - grpmi fails with "failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm" even
> before the kdesu box is displayed.
>
> - The Perl-GTK dependancy for package rpmdrake was not satisfied during
> installation.
>
nasty. never happened here... could you mail me your /root/auto_inst* and
/root/ddebug.log ?
> I had to install it afterwards.
>
> - Tried to use rpmdrake to install control-center-1.0.51-2mdk.i586.rpm
> and it "fetched" and then tried to install it and all I got was
> "Installation failed" in a "gmessage" box with an "Ok" button.
>
look at /var/log/urpmi.log for more
i know error messages could appear more nicely :-/
> - There was a desktop icon for DrakConf but the DrakConf package was
> not installed.
>
fixed (i remove unusable icons)
