Bernie: Could some of this be in KS file?
Tom Gilliard satellit Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Hello, > > yesterday we evaluated a nightly compose of SoaS-3 on a Toshiba laptop > of one of our teacher trainers. > > Hardware support was perfect and the overall impression was very good. > However, installation to hard drive with liveinst could use some tuning: > > > * installer asks for way too many technical questions such as hostname, > root password... Most of these should be unnecessary for SoaS. > > * By default, liveinst tries to create a complicated partition layout > using LVM + swap + boot + root. Just root should be enough on any > computer which can already boot SoaS just fine from USB. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#liveinst_command_to_install_to_Hard-Disk.2FUSB_from_Soas_CD Alternate: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#zyx-liveinstaller_Instructions_for_Mirabelle_f13 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller (advantage here is with SugarClone (1) customizations are preserved on non-live HD/USB install and no gdm logins or firstboot are required on new install:) (1) http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone > * After installation, firstboot bothers the user with more silly > questions. The firstboot package could probably be uninstalled. > > * No automatic login after installation. You get GDM and you have to > key-in a password, which is very un-sweet :-/ > > Autologin can be enabled with this edit: http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/AutoLogin.txt > * After installation, sudo does not work out of the box. (this is one > of the major annoyances of Fedora, it should be fixed upstream too) > > I'll follow up with additional comments as we deploy SoaS on more > computers and collect feedback from more formadores. > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
