Hi, because one person thanked me for my last email on upgrading from mdv, i'm continuing the series of emails with this 3rd issue: installing via text installer. (i'm reminded also by olorin_ that this could be important for braille installs too; though i have no such knowledge)
conclusion: text installer is not yet ready, there is some major bugs in it. (and i love the new artwork on the graphic installer) what happened: - first i want to mention that sshd is not in rescue mode, i knew about this beforehand, so i didn't test this: i maintain that this is one of the most important aspects (to me) to have the FIRST fully functional rescue mode for x86_64 on a CD! (to have anything else, requires either 32bit (which can't execute chrooted stuff from x86_64), or a full fledged DVD... on ANY DISTRO i've come accross on. </rant>) - in graphical grub: F3 to choose text, still gives you a graphical installer, workaround is pressing ESC to go to textual grub, then press "text" to get there. (#645) - diskdrake has a few major issues and i urge you to just use the standard "use free space" one, because the manual partitioning just doesn't work properly (#646 and #647) - i must say i was amazed at the speed of installation (partly because there just isn't alot to install on the dual arch iso) :-P - i chose almost nothing packages, and deselected everything i came accross, but still i installed networking computer server and firewall/router. - configuration after install worked as expected, thought there were a few minor "visual artefacts" - then it asked me to update, and i said yes, after which a window appeared, then disappeared, but then seemed to wait for 10-15min of doing nothing, after which i could reboot (#648) - then i logged in as root in tty (did i mention i didn't install even LXDE?) - but i saw that my locales were not installed, ahmad pointed me out that those weren't on the dual arch isos, and that is indeed correct (#649) it did make me think on bug (#103) and perhaps it might not be a bad idea to just remember what was missing and install during updates installation. (as a sort of quick fix, because we all know the installer needs a bit of redoing, but that will take alot of time). well, that was it. text installer needs the diskdrake bugs sorted out imho to be ok.
