-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good to see people testing.
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > 1) Diskdrake failed to colour classify correctly one ext2 partition > /dev/hda10 which it insisted was NTFS and it therefore colour coded it > blue in accordance with diskdrake colour menu, but the partition was in > fact an ext2 partition and any attemt to rectify the file system > clasification threatened elimination of all data, which I certainly did > not want it to do. I chose to leave it as it was. > I recall a couple of bug reports coming across and this may have been fixed already. I cannot confirm though. > 2) Once again it insisted on installing lilo,which I would of prefered > it did not, since I have a dualboot M9.0/M9.1beta3 setup and if anything > goes wrong with this beta install it messes up my M9.0 boot, and indeed > this is precisely what it did as will become apparent. > This has been fixed in the latest Cooker. You can now choose whether to install lilo to floppy or root partition as wel as mbr. > 3) No printer configuration at all, error message: foomatic rpm not found . > This has been fixed in the latest Cooker > 4) The whole install programme finally came to a complete halt at any > attempt to install monitor configuration,and video card drivers etc. > There was no xwindows at all, as the install completely hung right at > the beginning .I had to crash to get out of it. > Not sure about this as it went okay here. You may want to have a look at bugzilla to se if there are any workarounds for this. > > I will have another attempt tonight at a fresh install, but I do wish > the installer gave us an option not to install lilo at all, it makes > beta testing, a likely high risk failure rate process, far less trying. > Make a boot floppy for your 9.0 install and test it before you try again. Hopefully it goes smotther next time. - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RpFTwDpHP6GALAARAoS9AJ4zawVvDCys38+/wFGF5h4ADwwOcwCgmc23 JAxIbTd89NcLELeIdgKJDsY= =iqFK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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