---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [RC2 i386 floppy] Should handle the lack of translations on the floppies better Date: Wednesday 15 December 2004 16:34 From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Frans Pop wrote: > Floppy installation currently does not support installing in other > languages than English. OK, seems reasonable because of floppy size. > However, I agree with you that the current installation using floppies > is confusing: > - you do get the languagechooser dialog allowing you to select other > languages than English > - if you do, the next dialog for country selection will show country > codes instead of country names I did not noticed that. > - after additional modules have been loaded from drivers floppy and CD, > there is a very strange mixture of languages: > - some dialogs will show a translated title and untranslated contents > - some menu choices in the main menu are translated (those loaded from > the cd-drivers floppy and the CD), while others are not (those > loaded from the root floppy) > > However, I can not confirm that earlier choices are "lost" after the > installer loads additional modules from CD. The only thing I noticed was that my keyboard went back to English (I'm not even sure whether I gad a German keyboard after selecting it - perhaps I never typed a German keyboard specific key until I inserted the CD.) IMHO, this all is no real issue because people who are able to handle floppy installs are able to work around this. I just wanted to report this to people who might be interested ... > AFAIK DMA is enabled by default. See /proc/ide/hdX/settings (where hdX > is your hard disk). I'll check this. Kind regards Andreas. ------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]