Re: [expert] 9.1Beta2 - no way to install it here

[Mark Weaver]

Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 15:55 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:

Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

Hi wobo..

as far as your wheeled mouse thats likely the easiest part. just go with the generic two button, or generic wheel mouse.

I realized that the wheel did not work in the installation screen but
it works later after installation.

Bad surprise: As in Beta1 the blue field on the screen was not large
enough to show the buttons to commence after selection. I tried

as you've noticed you're not going to be able to do individual package selection. I had to cruise past this part as you've done and allow it to install what its going to.

Done that. OK

Then it started post-installation configuration and asked for Disc #1.

:) this sounds familiar. did the same thing to me so I skipped this part as well. it didn't appear to be a problem since the installation runs just fine.

I did another attempt and it did not ask for disc1, it run right
through!

listing of devices and realized there was no network installed. I

Then I hit the bar with the X configuration. It asked for my monitor

as for config-ing the the display its been my experience to not do configure for anything as fancy as your Gforce card and wait till the system restarts after the install and then do your display config. ( its all part of the excitement and discovery of the beta version. )

No, this time it showed "No network configured" and "No X configured"
but when I marked the bars and hit "Continue" I could configure X and
network. Both run without tweaking now!

I commenced without X and that was it. No option to create a bootdisk.
I forgot: there was an option to install LILO but I passed it because
it did not give me the option to have it on a bootdisk.

Now I even got the option to create a bootdisk!

What does not work is the integration of 9.1 in my main lilo.conf of 9.0. I am working on that. Until then I use the bootdisk.

BTW: Someone early after start of the Beta cycle wrote about the
wonderful new look with his fonts. I can't see that. I have the same
look as in 9.0 as far as fonts are concerned. Without importing the
ttf from my WIndows partition I have the same ugly look in console
windows and X apps. Even worse in Mozilla.

wobo

Your results with the fonts is a weird one cause I've got plain fonts in 9.0 and the fonts in 9.1 are wonderful. And I don't have anywhere near the vid card you've got. Mine is just a piddly onboard video card using the intel810 chipset.

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Mark
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