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(except in advanced setup) +- core media +This screen was never clear to me, and i never selected it, however, perhaps +for iso installation, a mirror repository should be automatically there and +selected by default? so that if there's updates, they can already be used +during installation... ? WDYT? +- i selected HTTP and it installed a few packages so i could enable networking +(2min) +- the partition step kept being highlighted, even when i was configuring +network... +- <A HREF="http://distrib-">http://distrib-</A> +coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64 didn't seem to +work when configuring additional media +- KDE choice (very funny artwork :-D ) +- installing (5min) +- when configuring, wizard said my password was trivial to guess, even though i +had letter and digits in it with total length 8 +- updating after install +- when updating, the messages had tiny fonts suddenly. +- rebooting system +- booting looked fine, nice gfxboot screen (this did not have the 1 a 2 second +delay) +- i do notice F1 F2 F3 but no visible text next to it...? +- because of me having vbox3, the guest machine just crashed when X was +appearing. +- restarting (using safe mode this time), that worked fine into single user +mode +- init 3 (gave some warnings but looked ok generally) +- messages about gpg-agent being started... +- "su -" has the same message +- non-free was enabled by default +- i enabled tainted +- perhaps the iso media should be removed after installation and when updated +media are installed? it keeps requesting for the DVD... +- vim didn't show a color scheme for /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg . +- trying to update with urpmi --auto-select showed me that i had an orphaned +package ? kernel-desktop-devel ? odd... +- i noticed sshd wasn't installed by default, neither was bash-completion +- trying init 5 didn't work +- i removed x11-driver-video-vboxvideo +- init 5 said that display manager didn't work +- vbox3 didn't seem to have a way to use a different emulated driver... + + +I don't really want to upgrade to vbox4, in fear of destroying my other +virtual machines, so compatibility would be very nice... + + +logs vbox3 guest: (vbox3 is still in 2010.2, so perhaps we should have vbox3 +compatibility?) +---------------------- +00:37:49.040 Guest Additions information report: additionsVersion = 0x00010004 +osType = 0x00053100 +00:37:49.040 Guest Additions capability report: (0x0) seamless: no, +hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: no +00:37:49.040 Guest reported fixed hypervisor window at 0x0000000001000000 (size += 0xc00000, rc = VINF_SUCCESS) +00:37:49.051 Guest Log: vboxguest: major 0, IRQ 20, I/O port d020, MMIO at +00000000f0400000 (size 0x400000) +00:37:50.139 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented) +00:37:50.139 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented) +00:37:50.142 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented) +00:37:54.461 SharedFolders host service: connected, u32ClientID = 3 +00:37:56.042 NAT: IPv6 not supported +00:37:57.282 Guest Additions capability report: (0x4) seamless: no, +hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: yes +00:37:57.283 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0, +pvVRAM=00007f7959303000 w=1440 h=1050 bpp=32 cbLine=0x1F400 + + + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003590.html">[Mageia-discuss] First impressions +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003597.html">[Mageia-discuss] First impressions +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3596">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3596">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3596">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3596">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |