I have just tried the V8beta1 ISO-CD images on this machine and have some bugs
to report :-)
Hardware:
Dual Pentium-200MMX (yup, an oldie)
128MB RAM
Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI with 2x4.5GB IBM discs
Matrox Millenium FB
CD-Burner on /dev/hda
CD on /dev/hdc
Zip on /dev/hdd
3Com 3C509 network, SB-16, ?? FM tuner card
I did an "expert" upgrade from a base 7.2+ installation. Chose "everything".
System was booted from the Install ISO placed in the CD burner (this may be the
root cause of the bug, but anyway):
Problem:
When the installation script told me to insert the second CD (EXT), it
failled to unmount the first one...This is a gotcha. I poked around on the
framebuffer console and could not deduce which process was either standing on
the mount point or holding a file open. Indeed, you could not get past this :-(
Installation was effectively stopped at this point :-( The rest of the script
ran just fine until boot time when I ran into the already reported problem with
inability to load the scsi kernel module. Fixed by booting my old 2.4.0 kernel
from 7.2 (I *love* GRUB).
Problem:
The install changed the VGA= kernel parameters to: vga=0x0122 for each entry.
This caused the screen to remain black :-( The entry I use is vga=791 which
works just fine. I don't know why the installation changed this parameter for
my old kernel.
Residual problem: I now have a bastardised 7.2+8 melange system - what is the
quick hack method for adding all the relevant EXT CD packages in the correct
installation order? I've dragged in nautilus (cute but big/slow) and Evolution
(very cute) but I'd like *everything* :-) I recall seeing on this list mention
of running the installer again on a live system..?
/Kevin
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