This was an unsatisfactory experience, for me. All I can do is list a
number of observations and provide more info or bug report(s), if
someone will specify.
The md5sum of the iso was verified with md5sum -c and the dd to usb key
was verified against the known good iso with writecd -cmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 rolf audio 1562378240 Mar 4 05:55
OpenMandrivaLx-2014.0-alpha2.x86_64.iso
*Cosmetic: The first wait screen after choosing the default Install
menu item is larger than my monitor; the second wait screen, after
making the initial settings for keyboard, etc. is smaller than my
monitor:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1286780/openmandriva/images/2014-splash.v01.JPG
Eventually, the login screen fits and is beautiful.
*Date, Clock & Time Zone Settings incorrectly lists the local time as
UTC and UTC time as local. I select the correct local time, i.e. 4:30,
which is how I set my BIOS and which is associated with "Machine set to
UTC", the BIOS clock is set to UTC. I have never seen this before.
*After about 20 minutes waiting at the wait screen before installation
begins, I go to tty and find the Partitioning step at F7. This is
unacceptable, if it happens in other instances.
*I did not see the "Clean /tmp at boot" option. Can this be available?
*At first boot of the installation, the wait screen resolution is too
large|too small before|after the first time settings.
*After watching the 'wait' spinner for about 7 minutes, I found the
login screen at F7. This is not right.
*Logged in, I needed to open drakclock to set the time back to local. I
enabled NTP and chose North America, United States for the server pool.
There was about 2 minutes of unresponsiveness in drakclock and, when I
looked, NTP was disabled.
*I didn't look for an install log in /root/drakx until after the first
login but I don't see any such.
*There was no sound for system notifications or using play on CLI. I
have onboard sound, hdmi sound, and a Xonar sound card. In pavucontrol,
system sounds was at 0, so I raised it. The Xonar uses snd_virtuoso and
that is loaded. Typically, in pavucontrol, I will turn off the other
two adapters in order to use the Xonar and I did that. In alsmixer, I
found the levels to be at 0 for this card and I raised them. Nothing I
did produced sound but there is one more setting for the stereo upmix I
could work with some more.
*When I went to bugzilla in Firefox, I was greeted with the "Untrusted
connection!" warning.
*In both tests of the 2014 devel releases I've made, configuring my
Radeon HD 6950 to use fglrx causes X to segfault, it appears, and some
details about that are filed in bug 280:
https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280
Thanks,
Rolf
