On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 01:30 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Ken Foskey"> > > > The installer needs some work before i would call it really easy to use. > > Seems to be streamlined for a simple clean all setup. Error messages > > appear to be a bit weak when things go wrong. > > Hey, interesting problem - not sure what that was. I've demonstrated it in > front of quite a few crowds now (where Murphy's Law strikes) and done so > many installs through the development process I couldn't begin to count > them, but have never seen this happen. Did you download the final release? > > Anyway, happy to demonstrate the usual simple, streamlined install for you > at SLUG tomorrow night. Personal performance, just for you! :-)
For the record... The problem was that I was putting the /home directory on a vfat partition. This apparently is a no-no and it failed to create my home directory correctly. Hopefully the release manager will take this up with the developers and get this combination disallowed :-). KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
