On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:07 AM, Miklos Vajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 04:10:47PM +0200, Elentir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fwife work now good (i hope ;) ) for making a first beta version. It's a >> "ubuntu like" installer for fwlive, so it just support netinstall. >> Sources can be downloaded from : >> http://utopia.toile-libre.org/upload/fwife/fwife-0.1.tar.gz >> or find in git repo : >> http://github.com/Elentir/fwife >> >> It surely remains many bugs and things to improve (and i've many ideas :) >> ). So can you have a look at it? Of course, any bug, suggestions, patchs, >> ideas or others are welcome :) >> See Readme for details (compiling, know bugs, todo, etc.) > > First, sorry for the extremely slow reply. I cloned the git tree today, > and tested it (commit 7759607dfbe230922ec236a09892fbc06baac7ce) in a > cleanly installed system. > > Notes: > > - It would be nice to allow installing without a swap partition, the > console installer allows it. > - During the download, it would be nice to have a global progressbar, > not just a per-package one. > - The 'Forward' button is "clicked in" during the download: > http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/pics/bug/fwife.png > that's unintentional, I guess. :) > - It would be nice if there would be a 'make install' target, so that we > could package fwife (and include it in fwlive). > - On stdout/stderr, I get some warnings: > http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/logs/fwife.log (though just forget them > if they do not appear at you, on this minimal system I get such > warnings from firefox as well). > - I selected locale-extra and now the poor installer seem to download > all the language packs, while the original setup always selected only > the relevant ones, based on the language. > - The default filesystem is ext2, I guess ext3 would be better. > - When using file:/// as a custom mirror, it seems that there is no > feedback during the download. Of course if you are patient then the > install progressbars are OK again. :) (and there you have the global > and the local progressbar, something like this would be needed for the > download one). > - Spelling: connexion is connection in English. :) > - xconfig seem not to call /usr/libexec/xconfig-helper, so you can > easily create a non-working xorg.conf. > - Your improved xconfig allows selecting the login manager in > /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but when I select kdm from kdm and xdm, and > last line of /etc/sysconfig/desktop will be: > > #desktop="/usr/bin/xdm > -nodaemon"#desktop="/usr/bin/slim"#desktop="/usr/sbin/gdm > --nodaemon"desktop="/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon" > > so that X is not started after the install. (The contents seem to be > fine, just don't omit the \ns.) > > - root:root is the owner/group of /home/user, so users have no write > access to their HOME. > - It seems that /etc/X11/xorg.conf is missing after the install, so I > had to run xconfig manually after booting to the installed system. > > Other than that, well done!
Elentir, As VMiklos already said - well done! I love the idea of having a GUI installer, even if it isn't strictly necessary. May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
