On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:24:02AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 09:30 pm, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > > 1. Partitions. Although it offered to guess partitions for me, it > > presented me with a menu with all the sizes and various options. As much > > as *I* understand, I wouldn't expect anyone else to understand it. It > > should be skipped, or put behind an "Advanced Setup" button so people > > don't mess it up. > > I noticed that too. I think since it's shown as a confirmation page, it's > probably not a big deal, but people new to Linux still won't want to see it. > I think that once Sarge is released, the expectation is that people will > "skin" the installer and make prettier, maybe even GUI interfaces. I know > the new installer was designed for that. Since that's the type of interface > a non-technical user would likely use anyway, I hope that won't be an issue.
Yeah, I didn't make that clear: it is just a confirmation screen. It still feels like it's missing out on the whole "Don't let the user mess anything up that they shouldn't need to anyway." I personallly think that this screen is just asking for the user to mess it up :) > > 2. Resolution - The monitor came up with a default 800x600 resolution. > > I had to edit the xfree config file manually to get it to work. (The > > monitor is a 15" LCD, which goes up to 1024x768.) I know as a user, I'd > > be pissed off at that. > > I'm curious how you did monitor selection? Did you maybe select 24bit color > and not have the video memory to support that bit depth and resolution? Or > did you let it do everything automatically. I haven't had an issue yet, but > I'd like to know what to look out for. I honestly have no clue. I didn't remember doing anything at all regarding the video card or the monitor, which was why I was surprised when it worked at all :) I don't remember makinga guess at video memory, or at color depth, so I'm not sure how it decided what to do: all of the setups seemed like they were definitely very basic, like I would expect from a default X install, rather than something which was configured. All in all though, much less painless process than installing Gentoo was... ;) -- Christopher Schmidt
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