Re: Test Report (was: Re: boot-floppies_2.0.4 (source i386) uploaded)
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:59:18AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > >1) cosmetic: When configuring the network, the screen says something like:
> > > "You have configured your base system but not your network",
> > > but network config is *before* the base system is even installed.
>
> Fixed for boot-floppies 2.0.5.
Using the 1998-03-29 disks for several installs today we noticed a few
problems. First is the weird messages from dpkg's cdrom method as mentioned
previously. Another is that installing the base system, from CD-ROM,
seems to sit around for a very long time doing nothing.
Also, it seemed to ask us where the disks-i386 directory was twice,
to find the kernel/modules and later to find the base system. This seems
unnecessary.
Also, it claims that lilo can't be installed if linux is not on the first
disk; I appreciate that there are problems with this but I don't think the
handling that exists now is very helpful. And after saying lilo can't be
installed, the next option back at the menu is, again, make Linux bootable
from the hard disk ...
Still, the boot disks are a lot nicer to use than previously (with
the new, faster, interface). Also we had one system which would have been
an ideal Red Hat candidate, but Debian probes for ide2 and Red Hat does
not, so Debian got the job.
Hamish
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