Re: [Cooker] 8.3 beta 3 Network install vs CDRom install (display option)
Steven Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you can't do this. There's no network modules on the cdrom boot image. Fair enough. Perhaps the installer could warn when the display parameter is used, or just ignore it ... It just tries to honour it without handling potential errors. Now, it quits with a Could not open display ... message, which might leave a user confused as to why the display couldn't be opened. We can't gracefully handle errors in stage1, diskspace is a serious issue. And if we could, I doubt I would even include an error msg for that :-) (remember initscripts + root-in-rw story ;p). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
[Cooker] 8.3 beta 3 Network install vs CDRom install (display option)
The cdrom boot image should configure networking if the 'display' parameter is specified. I tried to do an install using the network.img (dated 26 Feb 2002), and saw that there was a display option. This worked as I expected: I booted from a network.img disk, hit F1, and typed vgalo display=192.168.0.254:0 to have the X part of the install appear on a remote display. The installer asked me to set up networking (expected because I am installing from an FTP site), and then when the X-based installer was loaded, everything appeared on the correct remote display. No problem, and I'm impressed at this point. Later on a different machine, I have the beta 3 iso burned to CDROM, and try to do the same trick. Only this time, I wasn't prompted to set up networking, and when the installer tried to open my remote display, it failed, and quit the installer. It would be good if the cdrom boot image prompted the user for network configuration info if the display option has been given on the command line. === Steven Mackenzie Active Navigation Ltd http://activenavigation.com/ +44 (0) 23 8074 2420 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cooker] 8.3 beta 3 Network install vs CDRom install (display option)
From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be good if the cdrom boot image prompted the user for network configuration info if the display option has been given on the command line. you can't do this. There's no network modules on the cdrom boot image. Fair enough. Perhaps the installer could warn when the display parameter is used, or just ignore it ... Now, it quits with a Could not open display ... message, which might leave a user confused as to why the display couldn't be opened. (It would have confused me if I hadn't already done a network install, and even then, I tried CDROM install with display twice to make sure I hadn't entered my display wrongly ...) It's a great feature though -- I made everyone in the office look at it while it was working :)
Re: [Cooker] 8.3 beta 3 Network install vs CDRom install (display option)
Steven Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would be good if the cdrom boot image prompted the user for network configuration info if the display option has been given on the command line. you can't do this. There's no network modules on the cdrom boot image.
