Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-09 Thread Hal Black
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Aleksander Adamowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I've tried to conduct an upgrade from 9.0 beta4 to 9.0 RC1 That's a side note to your report, but - people should not do upgrades from a beta version to another, because bugs from the first may add to

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-09 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Hal Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People should do upgrades from the previous stable version to the latest cooker/beta/rc, e.g. for currently, from 8.2 to RC2. Thanks! I did an upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0RC1. Is this invalid behavior? Well it *should* work, but the farther between the

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer

2002-09-09 Thread Leon Brooks
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:15, Igor Izyumin wrote: Also, can we have a retry button when a package fails to install? I often get problems with packages when installing over the network or on old CDROMs, and it would really help. Currently, there is only an option to cancel or continue. Is it

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-09 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Aleksander Adamowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I've tried to conduct an upgrade from 9.0 beta4 to 9.0 RC1 That's a side note to your report, but - people should not do upgrades from a beta version to another, because bugs from the first may add to the second. People should do upgrades

[Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (willmake debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-06 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
Hi! I were trying to hunt for that dreaded mkinitrd bug in RC1. First, I've tried to conduct an upgrade from 9.0 beta4 to 9.0 RC1 on my machine at home during the weekend, but during the packages installation process there was a power outage. I've continued the upgradeafter the power had been

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-06 Thread David Bolin
I saw this bug while I was installing, and the installation failed(fresh install), I really don't know if this had anything to do with the cause, but I tried once again to do the install and it succeeded. The only thing that I did different was remove a DVD that I had forgotten to remove from

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-06 Thread Pixel
David Bolin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also during beta4 I had a very similar problem with my USB compactflash/smartmedia card reader plugged in. Failed the install, unplugged the reader and tried again and install went off without a hitch. this should be ok now (in rc1, and the

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof (will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-06 Thread Igor Izyumin
Also, can we have a retry button when a package fails to install? I often get problems with packages when installing over the network or on old CDROMs, and it would really help. Currently, there is only an option to cancel or continue. Is it really that hard to implement? -- -- Igor

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for future 9.1 installer: make it more failure-proof(will make debugging cooker easier)

2002-09-06 Thread Aleksander Adamowski
Igor Izyumin wrote: Also, can we have a retry button when a package fails to install? I often get problems with packages when installing over the network or on old CDROMs, and it would really help. Currently, there is only an option to cancel or continue. Is it really that hard to