Op vrijdag 24 februari 2012 19:59:01 schreef Jeff Robins: [...] > 1) I did the install from a flash drive using the x86_64 ISO. > - I could not install any packages after installation > - I finally figured out that I had to mount the flash ISO > partition, but I don't think it was intuitive at first > - Is there a way to detect installation from flash and let the > user know that the ISO partition must be mounted? > - I don't remember having to explicitly mount the DVD in th past > - I never removed the flash after install, which is probably why I > didn't think about it
for cdrom media, it complains about mounting it, i guess it could do the same for unmounted partitions/nonexistant mount flash points? > 2) The sound card section showed up twice on the page of other > installation settings > - Not sure what this page is called, but it lets you setup the > network, video, proxy, etc > - The second instance was directly after the first > - I'm pretty sure I don't have 2 sound cards, but it is an > integrated motherboard so I guess it's possible > - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E35M1M_PRO/ you could've accidentally clicked on it twice? is this reproducable? after install, check in /proc/snd/cards to see how many audio chips you have? > 3) I installed a second NIC in the machine and the eth0 and eth1 aliases > keep sometimes switch between the two > - I already saw a bug report about this, but it is really annoying that's definately an irritating bug, can you refer us to the bug report? > 4) dhclient isn't run automatically. I have to run it manually > - Network Center is set for automatic IP and dhclient is set as the > DHCP client this is likely related to 3 > 5) After installing the SSh Server I was unable to connect remotely > - I had to add "SSHD: ALL" to /etc/hosts.allow > - I set security to server when installing the distro that's a feature > 6) radeon-firmware Bug 1471 > - This has hit me on 3 of my 4 machines (Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 Beta > - It was made worse by my inability to install ssh-server blindly > - I tried to install it by switching to a terminal, logging in > and using urpmi. It didn't work because of (1) > - (3) and (4) didn't help either > - The work-around from the Errata didn't work because the firmware > wasn't installed > - installing the firmware automatically rebuilt the initrd there was a discussion about nonfree stuff in installation media, but i donno what the conclusion was to that discussion.
