On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:58:07AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Olivier Blin wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Would it be possible to show the errata url at the beginning of the > > installation ? > > > > It would have been useful for Mandrake 9.1 users with more than 1GB of > > memory. > > Today, I've helped a new user that didn't know why the installation > > hanged. The errata url is showed at the end of Mandrake 9.1 > > installation, > > so he couldn't know that the problem was the big amount of memory. > > If the errata url was showed at the beginning of the installation, he > > could have found it himself ...
Another way of doing things was to early on in the install process to ask whether errata should be installed, that is, before installing all the packages. That would mean that errors in the distribution could be remedied. I had an error with the drakx install script that it was in the wrong charset, this was highly annoying - if the script could go out and ask if errata should be applied very early then errors like these could be avoided. And it would save quite some time in a network install if you do not need to first download the erroneous packages and then the coorections. best regards Keld
