A quick note of how the install of the Weekly iso 3 went. I installed to a partition on my main system which was already partitioned into a 9 gig root, 512mb swap and 40 gig home. The install went smoothly and I chose to manually add the info to my existing bootloader, so I cannot comment on how well Yoper picked up the other partitions on there.
Issues found are - 1 As in the VMWare install, the CD is not detected after rebooting the first time, despite following the comments on the forum about only inserting CD when asked. To add the CD so I could grab the various files, I needed to add the installcd option which is mentioned in the forum (the info I received from Tobias in the irc chat). 2 No GUI is installed - presumably because of the CD issue above. I had no problems getting the gui installed once I could add the CD to the smart channels. This needs to be sorted for users however! 3 Powernow fails. I thought it may be simply down to the VMWare install I was using before, but it still fails - despite powernow working on the same system with other distros. Not a vital issue, but another small niggle which users will pick up on. 4 Sound. A horrific mess here! During install, all seemed to be OK - the alsaconf thing came up and correctly identified the card etc. However, when attempting to use the system, the Soundserver crash dialog was coming up every second or so at times! So frequently that it was unusable - I could not even type into a command line to kill artsd as the focus kept being stolen by the sound server crash box! Attempting to sort it via the Sound System box from the System menu was useless - it kept locking up/crashing the soundserver etc. I disabled the sound system in there but it kept throwing up the soundserver crash box. Are others having this issue? I am prepared to look into it if it is common. 5 Packages. As I mentioned before, I think smartpm-gui needs to be installed as part of the gui system so users can use smart without resorting to the command line. Also I still think the smart channel which is there by default is incorrect. What should the correct channel actually be? I am currently using just the CD. Because of the problems with the soundserver, I was limited to a few test package installs. These ran fine - smart works well. I did find Firefox failed to both add an icon to either the desktop or Internet section of the menu, and also failed to actually work. Even launching from a command line, I got nothing - no error messages but no Firefox either. That may be me - perhaps some dependancy is missing from the spec? Sorry this all sounds a bit negative. I think the system is looking good and is fast! But these little issues will be picked up by users and we need to consider them before a final release I think. Mark _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
