Hi all,

I'm not sure why, but somehow my bugreport on Oxygene-1 was ignored, so all 
the bugs I reported earlier are still in the graphical installation program.

Here's the list:

* when there is a problem detecting a PCI device, it keeps asking to try 
and find PCI devices. This continues after each step in the installation 
(very annoying!) (In my case it is an unsupported SCSI card from advance 
peripherals)

* package selection is confusing (I can't see whether a package is selected 
or unselected or mandatory), even though the information about each package 
is a lot better than with mdk 6.1.
An improvement would be to show clearly when a package is selected and when 
not. (by showing a + or - sign or something. Dselect wasn't so bad with 
regard to this...)

* When I downloaded the cryptographic packages, I got no feedback at all 
about the download times and whether something failed or not. (It didn't 
take long, so I didn't get worried, but I can imagine one would with a 
slower connection...)

* In general, I miss a clear help-system about the installation process 
itself. It would help so much if the choices on the screen and the steps 
taken would be documented and commented upon during the install.
One thing I've always thought lacking in all ditribution installs is the 
relationship between what and how you install and how you can use it later.

Obviously, this should not interfere with the installation (so make it a 
"What is this?" function under the right mousebutton or something)

Another thing, that I've noticed while installing Oxygene-II to a laptop 
was that the PCMCIA network settings are now in a different place. 
(ifcfg-eth0 instead of /etc/pcmcia/network.opts). These settings aren't 
copied, so they have to be configured manually. Obviously, this is a 
general issue in all Linux distros, PCMCIA isn't integrated as PCI, so 
configuration is always clumsy. However, it would have been nice if the old 
configuration would be detected and copied to the new.

Cheers

Simon.

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