Bug#244099: your installation report

2004-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Rick_Thomas wrote: That's your decision to make, and I respect it, but keep in mind that at least on OldWorld PowerPC Macs, if you boot from floppies, there is no way to choose expert mode. You get the default mode whether you like it or not. So you don't have any escape hatch to crawl out

Bug#244099: your installation report

2004-04-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 01:47 AM, Joey Hess wrote: Note that if you hit the go back button at the hostname question, you'll get to the main menu, and hitting enter will let you choose how to configure it. Thanks! That solves my problem. However, we still need to get some way to set the

Bug#244099: your installation report

2004-04-20 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: However, we still need to get some way to set the priority (and other boot-time parameters) for OldWorld PowerMacs doing floppy based installs. What component should I direct a bug report to on this subject? We already have bug #242143 open about that. -- see shy jo

Bug#244099: your installation report

2004-04-19 Thread Joey Hess
1 - It would be nice to have an option during install, after the network hardware is up and working to select an IP address even if DHCP configuration worked for this portion of the install. For various reasons, we've decided not to do that. You can configure this if you boot in expert

Bug#244099: your installation report

2004-04-19 Thread Rick_Thomas
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 00:40, Joey Hess wrote: 1 - It would be nice to have an option during install, after the network hardware is up and working to select an IP address even if DHCP configuration worked for this portion of the install. For various reasons, we've decided not to do