Just tried a hd install from a local mirror current as of this mailing.
Install-Expert-Low security-All groups-No individual package changes.
In the individual package selection dialog (which, by the way is a huge
improvement over 7.0 :), what's the deal with the "automatic dependencies"
option? I assume this means to automatically fill dependencies, but if so, why
isn't it on by default?
At the networking stage, the first dialog says "Networking is already
configured" and gives me the options to change it or not. Why would it already
be configured if I'm doing a fresh install? I was able to set up both my NICs
and configure them easily after selecting "reconfigure". Very nice.
Couldn't get crypto going. Any site I selected gave me a warning on F3.
"Warning: Net::FTP: Bad peer address ...propogated at
/usr/bin/perl-install/ftp.pm line 41".
In the bootloader stage, only lilo was available to select. Shouldn't
grub be listed too, or is it the default if I don't select lilo? Kind of
confusing.
Configuring X is where things got bad. Video card was correctly
detected to be a Voodoo Banshee, but testing the configuration always gives me
"Error. Try changing some parameters" or something to that effect. Setting my
monitor type didn't make any difference, and detecting modes blanked my monitor
and seemed to crash the installer. Choosing no at "try XFree 4.0" produced the
same situation. So after going through the whole install again, I just completed
it without a working X. Unfortunately, after rebooting, I couldn't get
XF86Setup going either! It just seg faults before it ever starts up.
The only boot time failure was with Apache. "Starting httpd : error in
loading shared libraries: libmm.so.10: cannot open shared object file : no such
file or directory."
Over all, it went more smoothly than my first 7.0 beta install, so
that's something :)
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David Hart
Vincity Design
*Proudly sent from Linux Mandrake 6.1*
