Rajko M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This time I was little bit more thorough logging what I have seen. > > I like 1 CD installation. > It loads basic system fast and than I can add whatever I want. > I tried that with 10.2 alpha 4, but it doesn't work that way.
I know - and this will happen only with Beta1 again. First we need to get the patterns list fixed. > 1) Hard disk choice doesn't exist as source of installation. > Later I've found out that some actually exist in text mode installation, > hidden in Network Installation, it goes trough Network settings (?!) and > than asking for directory, but it doesn't work on iso images. > I didn't tried again with installation source expanded to directories > CD1 to CD5. > > 2) Next, I tried with CD 1 to install Base system and than fro running > text mode install the rest. It requires some 500 MB, but also 4 CDs (?). > What happened to idea to have 1 CD for essential stuff? See above. > 3) So I quited installation, added another 3 CDs and tried to install > Base + AppArmor + Console. It gives > 1 GB including some KDE files and > requires all 5 CDs. I didn't checked what was from KDE, I remember > kdelibs. I guessed that Console means text mode and few more > applications like "mc", not graphic mode Console. I interrupted > installation at that moment. Package dependencies seems to grow system > to classic bloat. Please discuss the list of patterns and what you propose to change. I want to avoid bloat! > 4) Than when it is needed all 5 CDs, I decided to install default KDE, > but after warm boot to SUSE 10.0, CDRW disappeared. Cold boot solved the > problem and was CD5 added to set. > > 5) It is already mentioned that partitioning proposals are given in a > strange way. First it tried to remove 10.0 installation from /dev/hda1, > and create two partitions, than tried to remove data partition, on the > same disk, than I stopped to play with different menu options and went > to expert and gave /dev/hdb1 for installation. Partitioner warned me > that it will be better with swap. Good, swap exists, I added it buy > entering dialog where all was set just to click to OK and exit. This > might be somewhat shorter, and just explain that we need a swap and ask > which one to include. > > 6) Next is kind of my mistake, I should review expert options and > prevent boot loader installation, and later fiddling to give control > back to 10.0. > > 7) Audio was not installed. I can't recall that it was ever mentioned. > The adapter is plain VT8233/A/8235/8237 so something with detection > wasn't OK. Taking long list of: > udev[411]: lookup_group: <misc devices> > not found (or missing), during initial hardware detection, it can be that. yast2-sound was not installed - fixed now. > 9) The Main Menu is huge. Font is now OK, but surface is far beyond > screen. Restarting KDE doesn't help. Go back to mc and find in users > .kde directory kickerrc. Menu size was > KMenuHeight=1950 > KMenuWidth=3160 > resize to 400x600 and restart KDE again. > Menu is good now. This must be due to same 28x21 (cm) screen size that > is probably bad entry in monitor DB. Please report this in bugzilla. > 12) gcc is not prerequisite (dependency) of kernel sources. > If gcc is not installed what can I do with sources? Read them ? ;-) > I came with system configuration this far. Nvidia is left for some other > day. > > 13) Attempt to see Krita that is in the same category as GIMP, finished > with application crash. I'll try to see how to reproduce this. > > General 10.2 is nice and fast, and excluding installation, I can't see > major problems. Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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