On Asus K7V, newly-partitioned reiserfs /, /usr, /home partitions. (Was not the
/boot partition recommended to be -notails if reiserfs and, if so, should it not
be set that way by insall?)
Had to extract the files from loop-mounted iso's and put rpms2 in with rpms for
install to get past failure to expand 2nd stage ramdisk when iso was given,
which is fine. It's just that there has been some talk of just pointing the
installer to the iso.
Everything went smoothly, especially formatting the partitions {except a stall
at resizing reiserfs was a little mysterious till I found the 'dangerous
experiment' warning and question on the terminal and given that I have been
through this a few times). I agree that a more-visible choice to not install
the bootloader would be handy as I always use 'advanced -> cancel' to install
alongside the current stable and it wasn't obvious to find.
What became of the en_us part of locales?
One thing that is puzzling is that, since 7.1, I have not been able to configure
my adsl-pppoe-earthlink account at install. Once booted in:
[root@localhost rolf]# adsl-status
/usr/sbin/adsl-status: /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf: line 23: syntax error near
unexpected token `ETH=HASH(0'
/usr/sbin/adsl-status: /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf: line 23: `ETH=HASH(0x87f6044)'
Note: You have enabled demand-connection; adsl-status may be inaccurate.
adsl-status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID file .pppoe)
-----whereas I never choose demand connection/did not see the option during
install. I ran the internet connection configurator in DrakConf, next, but got
no further. As is now my habit, I ran the adsl-setup, making all the same
choices/entries:
Welcome to the Roaring Penguin ADSL client setup. First, I will run
some checks on your system to make sure the PPPoE client is installed
properly...
/usr/sbin/adsl-setup: /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf: line 23: syntax error near unexpected
token `ETH=HASH(0'
/usr/sbin/adsl-setup: /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf: line 23: `ETH=HASH(0x87f6044)'
Looks good! Now, please enter some information:
..........<snip>................
Congratulations, it should be all set up!
Type 'adsl-start' to bring up your ADSL link and 'adsl-stop' to bring
it down. Type 'adsl-status' to see the link status.
[root@localhost ppp]# adsl-start
.. Connected!
[root@localhost ppp]#
Rpminstall vanishes early on, leaving few clues and nothing installed:
[root@localhost ppp]# rpmdrake
extracting mozilla-fonts-20000310-8mdk.noarch
extracting printer-testpages-1.0-4mdk.i586
extracting mozilla-fonts-20000310-8mdk.noarch
extracting printer-testpages-1.0-4mdk.i586
All-in-all, yet another seemingly-miraculous production (wouldn't captions for
the party photos be a plus?). Thanks for all the good work.
rolf
