[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

Wed Apr 10 03:44:13 CEST 2013

I tried installing Mageia 3 Beta 4 on an ASUS 64-bit PC,
+a network install.
+
+A couple of problems I noticed:
+
+(1) insmoding xen_blkfront failed
+    /lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 96
+
+    (I was not using a virtual machine, this was an install onto
+    a physical PC)
+
+(2) During installation sometimes the wifi would go down.
+    I'd get a message,
+    Some files are missing [list of packages]
+    try to continue?
+
+    If you scroll down the list of packages you see another
+    message,
+    retry?
+
+    There's a do not ask again button.
+
+    It's not at all clear - does "do not ask again" mean
+    "do not attempt to download packages a second time in
+    the future"?
+    Please reword so it's clear...
+
+(3) It might be better if, on a download failure, the installer
+    checked the network was still up.
+
+(4) the installer doesn't redraw itself on an expose event,
+    so if you switch to another virtual console and back,
+    the installer is then a blank rectangle with rounded
+    corners, sometimes for quite a long time (minutes)
+
+(5) a message,
+    "script failed for mailman_2.1.15-3.mga3-x86-64:"
+
+    (there was a blank line underneath but no more text)
+
+Overall the install seems OK, although I don't know which packages were
+missed...
+
+Liam
+
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+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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