[Mageia-dev] A third lookout: Mageia beta1: text installer on dual arch iso

Wed Apr 6 00:16:43 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+because one person thanked me for my last email on upgrading from mdv, i'm 
+continuing the series of emails with this 3rd issue: installing via text 
+installer. (i'm reminded also by olorin_ that this could be important for 
+braille installs too; though i have no such knowledge)
+
+conclusion:
+
+text installer is not yet ready, there is some major bugs in it. (and i love 
+the new artwork on the graphic installer)
+
+
+what happened:
+ - first i want to mention that sshd is not in rescue mode, i knew about this 
+beforehand, so i didn't test this: i maintain that this is one of the most 
+important aspects (to me) to have the FIRST fully functional rescue mode for 
+x86_64 on a CD! (to have anything else, requires either 32bit (which can't 
+execute chrooted stuff from x86_64), or a full fledged DVD... on ANY DISTRO i've 
+come accross on. </rant>)
+
+- in graphical grub: F3 to choose text, still gives you a graphical installer, 
+workaround is pressing ESC to go to textual grub, then press "text" to get 
+there. (#645)
+- diskdrake has a few major issues and i urge you to just use the standard 
+"use free space" one, because the manual partitioning just doesn't work 
+properly (#646 and #647)
+- i must say i was amazed at the speed of installation (partly because there 
+just isn't alot to install on the dual arch iso) :-P
+- i chose almost nothing packages, and deselected everything i came accross, 
+but still i installed networking computer server and firewall/router.
+- configuration after install worked as expected, thought there were a few 
+minor "visual artefacts"
+- then it asked me to update, and i said yes, after which a window appeared, 
+then disappeared, but then seemed to wait for 10-15min of doing nothing, after 
+which i could reboot (#648)
+- then i logged in as root in tty (did i mention i didn't install even LXDE?)
+- but i saw that my locales were not installed, ahmad pointed me out that 
+those weren't on the dual arch isos, and that is indeed correct (#649)
+
+it did make me think on bug (#103) and perhaps it might not be a bad idea to 
+just remember what was missing and install during updates installation. (as a 
+sort of quick fix, because we all know the installer needs a bit of redoing, 
+but that will take alot of time).
+
+
+well, that was it. text installer needs the diskdrake bugs sorted out imho to 
+be ok.
+