[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Alpha 2

Mon Dec 19 14:39:41 CET 2011

+I'm trying out the Alpha 2 release.  My system specs:
+
+Dell Latitude E5510
+120GB HD
+4GB memory
+Intel Core i5 CPU (Dual Core)
+
+I'm testing with the 64Bit Mageia CD
+
+Things that I've noted:
+
+I used dd to burn the image to a 4GB memory stick, this worked well
+
+During the install, Mageia had to over write the test version of Windows 
+8.  I manually partitioned root, storage and home as XFS.
+
+When I hit apply, a rectangular box popped up, but the contents of the 
+box was whited out.  As if the box didn't completely redraw.
+
+ALT F12 showed the text that said you need to reboot.  Pressing ALT F7 
+got back to the graphical, but now the all the screen was whited out 
+with no visible buttons.  Blindly pressing all over the area didn't help 
+any buttons to click.
+
+Pressing ALT Backspace Backspace cleared the screen up, I was able to 
+see the, "You need to reboot" but had the option also to continue.
+
+I continued at this point and the install finished.
+
+The thing I didn't like is, it didn't offer an advanced option to select 
+the packages that I did/didn't want.  I'm guessing though, this is 
+because it was a live CD?
+
+Hopefully, it'll be available with the DVD installer.
+
+I rebooted and finished specifying username, password and root password.
+
+All hardware was detected (Except the 5 Series/3400 series chipset 
+thermal subsystem), which has never been detected by the distros I've 
+tested.
+
+I will play around a bit more and report any other issues I come across.
+
+Doug
+
+-- 
+
+Ben Franklin quote:
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+"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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