[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 beta 1

Fri Feb 24 19:59:01 CET 2012

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+On 02/23/2012 07:37 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 23 February 2012 12:00, zezinho <lists.jjorge at free.fr> wrote:
+>>> How easy should the upgrade from Beta 1 -> Beta 2 -> RC -> Release be?
+>>
+>> It is not supported, the only upgrade path is MGA1->MGA2.
+> 
+> But it should work.
+
+I installed Mageia 2 Beta 1 on the computer from scratch.
+
+I have had some problems so far:
+1) I did the install from a flash drive using the x86_64 ISO.
+   - I could not install any packages after installation
+   - I finally figured out that I had to mount the flash ISO
+      partition, but I don't think it was intuitive at first
+   - Is there a way to detect installation from flash and let the
+      user know that the ISO partition must be mounted?
+   - I don't remember having to explicitly mount the DVD in th past
+   - I never removed the flash after install, which is probably why I
+      didn't think about it
+
+2) The sound card section showed up twice on the page of other
+      installation settings
+   - Not sure what this page is called, but it lets you setup the
+      network, video, proxy, etc
+   - The second instance was directly after the first
+   - I'm pretty sure I don't have 2 sound cards, but it is an
+      integrated motherboard so I guess it's possible
+      - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E35M1M_PRO/
+
+3) I installed a second NIC in the machine and the eth0 and eth1 aliases
+      keep sometimes switch between the two
+   - I already saw a bug report about this, but it is really annoying
+
+4) dhclient isn't run automatically.  I have to run it manually
+   - Network Center is set for automatic IP and dhclient is set as the
+      DHCP client
+
+5) After installing the SSh Server I was unable to connect remotely
+   - I had to add "SSHD: ALL" to /etc/hosts.allow
+   - I set security to server when installing the distro
+
+6) radeon-firmware Bug 1471
+   - This has hit me on 3 of my 4 machines (Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 Beta
+   - It was made worse by my inability to install ssh-server blindly
+      - I tried to install it by switching to a terminal, logging in
+         and using urpmi.  It didn't work because of (1)
+      - (3) and (4) didn't help either
+   - The work-around from the Errata didn't work because the firmware
+      wasn't installed
+      - installing the firmware automatically rebuilt the initrd
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