On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > *Hello, guys!* > > > > *I tried to install Gobo-016 on VMWare 12.5 under Win7 x64 (if it’s > important). I created 20GB disk (what is more than enough) and start VM.* > > *Once LiveCD loaded, I created one partition for a whole drive (using > fdisk), skipped swap and started “Installer”.* > > *Problem #1: I forced to do it, since Gobo doesn’t allow “simplified > allocation” of drive. Nowadays there is no any serious reason to split one > drive for /boot, /home and other partitions.* >
We're not going to cover all possible partition allocation scenarios in our installer. If someone wants to have a particular layout, then it's just a matter of updating /etc/fstab after the system has been installed. *Problem #2: On “select packages” stage ALL PACKAGES WERE SELECTED! Are you > serious?! Am I so needed firefox of DXF decoder?? Relax, people! Only very > few system packages are necessary to run Gobo and even X-server is not > there. Please, reconsider seriously WHAT to preselect during first run!* > Been there, done that. We may do that on the next release again. I have decided to leave the Full package profile only for 016 because that helped me tremendously with testing (there is always a chance that some dependency is left out by mistake from some profile, and then things break at runtime). > *I selected packages for ~ 3GB (as system said).* > > *Problem #3: Only a few packages had description. WHY?? Should I be “guru” > of all those “GRWL”, “LVMZ” and other abbreviations? I’m sure it’s a work > for 2 hours to suck all descriptions from recipes and put in installer.* > We had a call for alpha/beta testing and, despite the great feedback we received, nobody noticed that, and I didn't spot that either. I will look into the automated process that was supposed to generate that information. > *Problem #4:** Autoinstall of packages went well only for first 30 > packages, next I got… NO SPACE ERROR! On 20GB drive. Again yes, “no space > left on drive”! Did we really pass “alpha” stage??* > > *Sure, the last problem is just a small, stupid mistake in installer, but > guys… we cannot issue so raw distro! I’m not a newbie, but even me cannot > say what the hell is going on in setup.* > Are you sure you have formatted your target partition? The way you describe it, you may have forgotten to do so. Or, perhaps, you installed it on the ESP (bootloader) partition. This is not an error with the installer, for sure. *So please let’s fix these childish problems and reissue new, more adequate > release.* > I like it whey you say "let's". I will happily review pull requests. Lucas
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