I like the new installation, it's nice and easy (not that the text-based installation was difficult), but I have a bit of a problem with choosing packages in Expert mode. A lot of times when I click on a + symbol to expand a category of packages, the expanded stuff isn't visible. I have to scroll down until it's off screen, then back up, to make it visible. Very annoying as I have to do this dozens of times by the time I'm done with all the categories. Of course, my real problem is that I never actually can get done with all the categories. After expanding/collapsing categories and choosing packages for 15 minutes, and not even being a third of the way through, I gave up and went back to use Custom instead of Expert. Choosing packages in that format just takes WAY too long. Also on a couple of occasions, after finishing choosing all the packages I wanted in all of the subcategories of a large category, I accidentally clicked on the name of the category instead of the symbol to collapse it. This caused ALL packages in the category to be chosen, so I had to go through and pick the packages I wanted in that category all over again. VERY frustrating. Could we have an optional package listing that just shows all of the packages in alphabetical order, instead of categorized? That way you just have one list to go through, and no categories to expand/collapse. It would be much faster, especially to those who already know what they want. In addition, it would be really nice if we could put a list of all the packages we want into a text file, put the text file on the boot disk (is there room for that?) or somewhere else where it could be read during install, and have the installer optionally use that file to automatically select/deselect packages depending on what's present in the file. That would be especially useful if you already have the selection of packages you want installed, and you want to reinstall for some reason (or do the same install on another computer). You could just do an rpm -qa > packagelist or whatever to get the list of packages for the installer. -Tom
