Here are some problems I found and also one or two feature suggestions

Installer - upgrade and install:

Removable media - I have a sparq removable IDE drive and I had to insert a 
cartrige in it before I could get to the disk partitioning section. It was 
complaining something like "Couldn't even get read/write". The only option 
was "OK" and when you click that it just tries again. There really needs to
be an "ignore" option there.

Installer - upgrade:

Package selection - the disk usage calculation seems to be wrong. When I
tried it, it didn't take into account that most of the space on /usr was
going to be reclaimed when old packages were deleted. It just saw that the
free space was smaller than the size of the packages to install and choked.

So I ended up just doing an install and formatting /usr (which is about 4G
in size)

Installer - fresh install:

XFree4 - I selected 1280x1024 as my mode but ended up with 1024x768. The
test went fine and I selected "Generic|Multi-frequency that can do 1280x1024
at 76 Hz". I'm running in 1280x1024 and all I had to do was edit XF86Config
and add "1280x1024" to Modes in the Display subsections.

Network - it doesn't give you a chance to configure more than one device,  
which seems a little odd for a distro that supports connection sharing (I  
know you can use the menu on the left to go back a step but beginners won't
know that).

Package selection - Not so much a bug as a serious annoyance. I selected as
full an install as I possiby could by ticking the box for each of the
high-level package groups - Development, Multimedia etc and I ended up with
a little over 1000 packages left uninstalled from my CDs! I now have to
install these myself. An "everything" button (like Redhat's) would be great.

Looking at the Multimedia menu in X, I didn't get any video players, seems
kinda odd since I select multimedia.

Similarly Development got me 4 -devel packages. I realise it also got me all
the dev tools but I'd love to see an option to "Include all -devel packages"
either as an overall option or maybe per category so that if I was
installing xxx.rpm I'd also get xxx-devel.rpm.



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