Did an HTTP install (from an 8.2 webserver) of cooker from a floppy-booted
network.img on an AMD 500 with 256MB RAM, 80G HDD and EEpro100 LAN card.
URI *must* start with a / else the hosting Apache gets sad (returns 400).
Might be worth mentioning that in the error message if the installer does get
a 400 back, and/or prepend a / and try the GET again.
Chose UK language, Recommended install, US keyboard, custom partitioning:
250MB ext3 /
555MB swap -
257MB ext3 /tmp (I like this to be nosuid,nodev and separate)
3937MB ext3 /usr (hindsight, about 4-4.5G(!) would have been better)
63433MB ext3 /var (machine will be webserving many images)
10131MB ext3 /home
The angled `Beta 3 - Installation' text is a good idea, it stands out because
it doesn't line up, without intruding.
Chose all groups, individual package selection.
Added PHP (? would expect this to be thrown in with a webserver) and many
submodules, some PostgreSQL extras, kicked off anything to do with NetNews or
Yellow Pages, switched on some development tools and documentation, a few
officey things like OpenOffice.org, dia, qcad etc (it will be a Terminal
Server too), a few games Glaxium (-: yay! :-), PySol, Maelstrom (hasn't
OpenUniverse been superceded by something?) then clicked on the recycle icon
to see what was as yet uninstalled (practically everything, as usual) and
picked out a few more TinyCA! (Bonus!), ALSA tools, apache2, etc.
Selecting stuff is very lagged. I'd also like a key to hit (X?) that selects a
package and all of its dependencies in one go, no waiting for a slow dialog
box to pop up.
The comment for the mosix-utils package is `MOSIX utils'. Yay.
Lit the blue touch-paper. Would like to be able to save my selection to
floppy/LAN/USB-thumb/whatever at this point. After a few minutes' pounding at
the disk, got an estimate of 2 hours. Many of the adverts still say `Mandrake
Linux 8.2'. The phrase `could take from a few minutes to a significant amount
of time' in the window at the bottom of the screen here is disturbingly vague
and would be better phrased as `will typically take from a few minutes to a
few hours. A minute or so after starting installation, a continuously updated
estimate of the time to completion will be provided.'
More comments later, little girl has woken up sad so AFK.
Cheers; Leon
