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----quoted text below---- alexh : 09/09 11:59 : Incident created BACKGROUND: I'm an experienced C/C programmer and UNIX system administrator (14 years experience) and have been using Linux for several years now. Sorry, but I don't have time to join the Cooker mailing lists right now. Some of the comments are quite trivial, but I'll make them anyway. Carried out an Expert Install of RC1: 1) Hard drive detection: - "Do you have any disc/SCSI interfaces ?" - Very confusing question. Do IDE disks count as examples of "disc" ? If you say yes, and look on the list, you get "eata", "eata_dma" and "eata_pio". Are these something to do with IDE disks (suggesting the answer to the first question was yes) ? 2) Configure mouse: - Chose PS/2 -> Other -> Microsoft Explorer. Had to press most/all of the buttons before it would register properly. Text "Please test the mouse" might be better as something like "Please test the mouse by moving it around and pressing all buttons". 3) Security: - "Security Administrator (login or email)". What does this refer to ? Why isn't there any (brief) explanation in the help text below ? Does this allow a special "security administrator" user to be set up ? If so, does this tie in with user creation later on in the setup process ? 4) Choose packages to install: - Asks whether I have "download rc1 Installation CD 2" and "download rc1 international CD". Is the "international CD" download rc1 Installation CD 3 ? I assume yes, but this is confusing. - Trivial: On the Package Group Selection box, the popup text would be more readable if it was a different colour to the other text, or had a different background colour, or if its background had a border. - I selected all package groups to be installed, but looking through the individual packages shows some packages shown as "Importance: MUST HAVE" as not having been selected - defeating the purpose of this description. The first example of this was 'cups-drivers'. - No offence to Canadians, but why is aspell-en_CA selected, and why is it a "MUST HAVE" package for a UK install ? - "Graphical Environment" package section could use a "Common Packages" subsection to avoid the package repetition in the KDE, GNOME and Other subsections. - "You have selected the following servers:..... These services are activated by default". Why not give the user the choice whether or not they'll be activated before printing this warning ? Or change the warning to say that the user will be given the chance to configure which services start as part of the installation process ? 5) Add a user: - Trivial: Nice selection of icons, but only one "professional"-looking icon, and it looks distinctly male. Would be nice to have a small selection of silhouette-type icons, including at least one female. 6) Configure networking: - Not everyone uses (or understands) fully-qualified domain names (especially the majority of dial-up internet users, but also people who set up small home or office networks). Could the setup be changed to be able cope with the setting of a simple hostname (perhaps use a default dummy domain if none is supplied) ? - "Proxies configuration": I want to use squid or privoxy on the newly-installed machine as my proxy. In this situation, it is confusing knowing what to type here - there is no help text either. Perhaps the use of squid or privoxy as local proxies could be added to the setup (if they haven't already - I didn't try this here). 7) Summary: - No prompt to enter any printer - I had to spot that the selection configured (remote CUPS server) was wrong. When configuring an HP 970 Cxi, it was very difficult to determine which print mode had been selected by default for the hpijs driver (the DPI figure had scrolled out of the input box). -----end quoted text----- -- Alan
