Some quirks and errata doing a bare minimal install on a fresh machine in text mode. Only the CUPS install trap is serious.
1) partition of a small (1G) disk is into 3 parts by default, which leaves a system partition that is dangerously small. I had to use the shell to fdisk and repartion, then reboot and "use existing partitions" to fix it. 2) After deselecting packages I get the dialog asking me to select bare minimum, with the third option saying "no urpmi" ... if you _don't_ take that third option (I took no options at all) the install fails; packages are attempting to open some sort of RPM database that doesn't exist, and the error causes the installer to segfault aborting the package. the installation asks if it's ok to skip it, but it doesn't matter which answer you give, it continues, aborting all subsequent installs. 3) Correcting for (1) and (2), installation goes well except many packages are looking for the US_en locale and none is installed; the screen fills with the usual "useing 'C' locale" warnings, but nothing breaks. 4) When we get to the system config listing keyboard, mouse and printer, it says "no printer", but clicking on this, I am offered the chance to install one. This machine is to be the printer server, so I thought I'd save some time and install now ... bad move. Installing CUPS ends up pulling in a lot of the X11 system (why?) and after configuring the printer, you enter into a loop where you select "done" and it says "configuring applications" and then returns you to configure another printer; there is no way out. To correct for 4 I had to elect to change the printing system, and chose to install LPRng; the LPRng dialog (with no printers configured) let me back out. 5) after rebooting, I added the openssh RPMS; the installation does not automatically generate the host key. A minor point because, if you're installing "bare, no docs" you can't expect hand-holding. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
