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To be honest, I don't recall....it wasn't visually obvious at the
diskdrak screen, nor do I recall any verbiage displayed when making the
auto-install floppy to indicate that such action would be required.
It seems that the folks most likely to use auto-install would be the
typical gotta-be-in-fifty-places-at-once sysadmins; new initiates to
Mandrake's auto-install system might well come away with a
less-than-uplifting OOB experience. As somebody earlier on the list
noted, we aren't competing against sal-si-puedes Windows 95 anymore; we
need to assume that the person doing this install may be reasonably
intelligent/experienced with PCs in general but is not a member of any
particular priesthood, and s/he may well be sceptical-to-hostile towards
the whole idea anyway.
Jeff Dickey
Seven Sigma Software and Services
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-------Original Message-------
Date: Sunday, March 10,
2002 04:52:20
Subject: Re: [Cooker]
Beta 4 observation - auto-install replay failure
Hi,
Jeff Dickey wrote:
> After a
successful install of 8.2 B4, subsequent HD failure and
> swapout
with an identical drive, tried replaying the auto-install
> floppy
I'd made from the first install. Booted from the floppy, got
> as
far as the disk-partitioning questions, where I got dumped into the
> partition-selection/mount-point selection screen....and couldn't
use
> the keyboard. The mouse worked just fine, but could not get
any input
> field to accept keyboard input. I had to restart the
install and,
> other than the package configuration diskette I had
(separately) made
> on the first install, went through the standard
Expert Install from
> scratch again. Please tell me this is
fixed....
>
>
>
> Jeff
Dickey
>
>
did you click on "Expert mode" in diskdrak,
to change the mounts point
names using the
keyboard?
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