[Cooker] Trying to install cooker tonight with graphic installer and net.

1999-11-20 Thread sf

Testing cooker today, using network graphic installer: 

- Text screen before switching to graphic mode are not good looking,
because of blinking cursor.

- There are 3 'things' at the left bottom, can guess what's their use.
Only after pressing them can I understand what they're supposed to do
(change colors). Confusing.

- 'choose your language': good. Except that I can't choose my language
(that's the one my mother taught me 30 years ago), only the language
I want to use during the installation.

- 'select installation class': how can I guess what 'recommended',
'customized' and 'expert' mean ? I take 'recommended'.

- 'setup filesystem': at the top, there is a clickable area
('ext2', 'swap'...) but nothing happens when I click on it. Confusing.
Then I find the way the whole thing works confusing too.

- then 'an error occured \ creation of rpm database failed: .'.
I'm supposed to click on 'OK' but it's not OK. Clicking on OK doesn't
help. Confusing.

- I try to switch virtual consoles with F1 / F2 / F3... but it doesn't
work. Slightly confusing for someone used to install Red Hats and
Mandrakes. Switchin with ALT-Fn of course does the trick.

- Error message on console 3 says: 'failed to mkdir /mnt/mnt/cdrom: File
exists' and 'EROOR: creation of rpm database failed: at
/usr/bin/perl-install/pkgs.pm line 325.'

Last remark: I find confusing that one can't validate an entry in a list
by double-clicking on it.

S.

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Re: [Cooker] Trying to install cooker tonight with graphic installer and net.

1999-11-20 Thread Pixel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


[...]

 
 - 'choose your language': good. Except that I can't choose my language
 (that's the one my mother taught me 30 years ago), only the language
 I want to use during the installation.
 

uh?

[...]

 
 - then 'an error occured \ creation of rpm database failed: .'.
 I'm supposed to click on 'OK' but it's not OK. Clicking on OK doesn't
 help. Confusing.

not only confusing, also bad :(

 
 - I try to switch virtual consoles with F1 / F2 / F3... but it doesn't
 work. Slightly confusing for someone used to install Red Hats and
 Mandrakes. Switchin with ALT-Fn of course does the trick.
 

you kidding? i'm not gonna hack xfree to allow alt-Fn instead of ctl-alt-Fn :pp

[...]

 
 Last remark: I find confusing that one can't validate an entry in a list
 by double-clicking on it.
   

ok, one point.


thanks, cu Pixel.



[Cooker] Trying to install cooker with text installer.

1999-11-20 Thread sf

I've just tried to install cooker with network (NFS) installer.
After the 'reading packages information' screen, I get the following Python
tracback:

File "/usr/bin/anaconda" line 218...
File "/usr/lib/python1.2/site-package/text.py" line 1000
...
File "/usr/lib/python1.2/site-package/comps.py" line 47
KeyError: postgresql-clients

S.


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Re: [Cooker] Trying to install cooker tonight with graphic installer and net.

1999-11-20 Thread Stefane Fermigier

On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 12:06:35AM +0100, Pixel wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  
  - 'choose your language': good. Except that I can't choose my language
  (that's the one my mother taught me 30 years ago), only the language
  I want to use during the installation.
  
 
 uh?

I understand `my language' as `my native language'. It's to late to change
it. But i can `choose which language i want to use during installation'.

  - I try to switch virtual consoles with F1 / F2 / F3... but it doesn't
  work. Slightly confusing for someone used to install Red Hats and
  Mandrakes. Switchin with ALT-Fn of course does the trick.
  
 
 you kidding? i'm not gonna hack xfree to allow alt-Fn instead of ctl-alt-Fn :pp

Right.

I forgot one last thing: how do you get help during installation ?

S.

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Re: [Cooker] Trying to install cooker with text installer.

1999-11-20 Thread Pixel

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 File "/usr/bin/anaconda" line 218...
 File "/usr/lib/python1.2/site-package/text.py" line 1000
 ...
 File "/usr/lib/python1.2/site-package/comps.py" line 47
 KeyError: postgresql-clients
 

that's the problem when taking RedHat's install, they like to make things tough,
an error in the comps and that's it :ppp



[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] NAME: MandrakeUpdate VER: 6.1 REL: 7mdk

1999-11-20 Thread Pablo Saratxaga

Kaixo!

On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:59:39AM -0600, ChangeLog Automate wrote:

  - using kdesu instead of gsu in grpmi
  - removed gsu

Is it a good idea to force use of kdelibs+qt etc for it ?


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