[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 beta 1

Sat Feb 25 10:02:33 CET 2012

Op vrijdag 24 februari 2012 19:59:01 schreef Jeff Robins:
+[...]
+> 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
+
+for cdrom media, it complains about mounting it, i guess it could do the same 
+for unmounted partitions/nonexistant mount flash points?
+
+> 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/
+
+you could've accidentally clicked on it twice? is this reproducable? after 
+install, check in /proc/snd/cards to see how many audio chips you have?
+
+> 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
+
+that's definately an irritating bug, can you refer us to the bug report?
+
+> 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
+
+this is likely related to 3
+
+> 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
+
+that's a feature
+
+> 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
+
+there was a discussion about nonfree stuff in installation media, but i donno 
+what the conclusion was to that discussion.
+