nice report.
beta? you should've seen windows in beta (lol).
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> This is my report on installing Linux-Mandrake 7.0b BETA on my computer
>
> *Hardware*
>
> -Abit BP6 with dual 366Mhz celeron
> -128 megs of RAM
> -2 Quantum HD
> 9.1G, Win'98 already installed
> 13G, target drive
> -Viewsonic 17PS with G400 Matrox
> -OKIDATA OL400e printer
> -UMAX Astra 1220S with bundled SCSI card
>
> *General comments*
>
> I don't know why this is called BETA... It's too buggy to be a beta.
>
> I believe that the testing process would be much better if Mandrake
> provided a printable evaluation form with point by point walkthrough.
> Once the tester has written down the various comments and bugs with the
> various options selected (or a copy of an install log?), he could then
> input it in a equivalent web form to input the bug reports.
>
> *Attempt #1*
>
> I first tried with the French language install. First of all, it would
> be nice to have a "French (Quebec)" instead of just a "French (France)"
> selecting automatically the keyboard Canadien (Qu�bec). I also wonder
> if the official keyboard is available in KDE?
> http://w3.olf.gouv.qc.ca/banque/technolinguistique/claviernorm.htm
>
> "� quelle utilisation destinez-vous cette machine?"
>
> Multiple and more choices would be nice!
>
> The help at the bottom of the screen does not always follow the dialog
> at the screen. I think every dialog should have it's own help.
>
> No support for my logitech mouse with the wheel.
>
> "Questions diverses"
>
> The "niveau de s�curit�" Welcome to crakers should be changed to
> something french (Gruy�re?)
>
> On the help panel at the bottom of the screen, last line, "D�marrage"
> is screwed up.
>
> "Partionnement"
>
> 10 gig for /home? 243Meg for 128 meg of ram? Isn't that crazy? where's
> /usr/local and /etc? Aren't they the poster child for partionning?
>
> Clicking quickly at randoms on the partitions froze the computer...
>
> *Attempt #2*
>
> It would be nice if HPT366 would be supported directly.
>
> Chinese Big5 doesn't work at all (every text tags on the screen
> disappear!!)
>
> This time, I went for english.
>
> "What usage do you want?"
>
> No explanations as what each usage does
> "Developement" should be Development!
>
> "Various questions"
>
> Didn't find my 128 megs RAM (didn't notice this the first time around:
> why can Windows detect it and not Linux?)
>
> Choose auto-partionning, even if I think the values are crazy.
>
> The "Going to install 726Mb, choose the size you want to install" is
> cryptic and useless.
>
> "Choose the package you want to install"
>
> Clicking and selecting cause whole parts of the tree to disappear!!
>
> "Installing..."
>
> I think the install could be better, it would be nice to have the
> description of package scrolling at least or have an highlight of the
> various features, some screenshots.
>
> The install time estimate went from 30mn to 28, 35 and finally 37. It
> would be nice to fudge the estimate so that it is more conservative.
>
> While installing, I had a look at the consoles:
>
> Console 1: the same error repeated over and over: [date] GDK-LOG **:
> file gdkwindow.c: line 1233 (gdk-window-set-background): assertion
> `window!=NULL` failed at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm
> line 369, <get_file> chunck 3677
>
> Console 7: Again an error repeating: Please check that your local
> settings: LANGUAGE="en_us:en" LC_ALL="en" LANG="en" are supported and
> installed on your system. Perl warning: falling back to the standard
> locale ("C")
>
> "Cryptography install"
>
> The top mirror I first tried didn't have a single package (Norway).
> The only thing display was the welcome.msg but the install didn't seem
> to realize this. It should display an error message instead and get
> back to the mirror selection screen.
>
> The next mirror worked fine but it would be nice to have a dowload
> progress report!!
>
> Once everything seemed to be done, I got an error message: An error
> occured /^ libstdc++-\d/: nested *?+ in regexp
>
> "Clock"
>
> "Is your hardware clock set to GMT?" It would be nice to show the
> current time kept by the hardware clock - I have no idea if it's GMT!
>
> "What type of printer do you have"
>
> Where's the option "not on list", I have an Okidata OL-400e. Printer
> support is quite limited!!
>
> "Enter user"
>
> "Error: the password is too simple..." Ok fine, but what are the
> specs?
>
> "Choose resolution and color depth"
>
> The max. available is 800x600 32 bits??!!!
>
> "At boot"
>
> "FS type supermount not supported by kernel"
>
> That's when I realized that I had only a single processor kernel!! Why
> wasn't it detected?
>
> Error message once booted: INIT: Id "x" respawing too fast: disabled
> for 5 minutes.
>
> Logging at the console, trying startx, the xserver starts but only to
> display a blue screen. Shutting down the X server, I then looked for
> KDE:
>
> rpm -qa | grep kde
>
> 3 files: kdesupport, kdevelop, kdelibs... Hmmmm
>
> That's when I rebooted in Win98...
>
>
>
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> Montr�al (Qu�bec) [�cole de Technologie Sup�rieure]
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