Installation of 2.2.1
Well, I've just tried installing the 2.2.1 boot floppies on a Compaq
DeskPro (ATI 3D Rage Pro, Intel EEPro 100, ESS 1869). Installing from
resc and root disks, drivers/base on DOS partition, rest over NFS.
There's clearly still a lot of things to work on (almost all in the boot
floppies - the packages are fine). In order:
At the keyboard choice menu, it talks about the 'exact right choice' -
just one, please.
Just before choosing device drivers, it says 'No space left on device' -
according to dmesg, it was getting 'cdrom: open failed' fairly
frequently, although at no time did I use my cdrom.
ipv6 and video module dirs have no description, as do many modules.
When looking at the networking modules list, the leftmost character was
missing.
When I selected eepro100 I was told 'Parameter documentation for this
module is invalid'.
On the screen to confirm the directory to install base from, there is
only a cancel button.
The task selection is completely broken - nothing works.
For some reason, it seemed to be installing perl-5.004.
I got several references to
Warning /etc/mailcap does not exist
Warning /usr/lib/mime/packages/mime-support-compat does not exist
while installing.
When trying to remove pcmcia-cs post-install, it gave the odd error
message
No pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
and I had to install/upgrade it then remove it before it would go away.
The configuration questions for exim are too complex - nothing else asks
anything like as many questions.
gettext would not install because
/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors was missing, but nor would it
remove afterwards.
time complained about unsupported postrm option 'install'
The defaults for gpm are an MS mouse - surely most people have PS/2 mice
these days?
My keyboard map (UK) that I setup during the install was ignored and I
had to run kbdconfig manually.
There's a big problem with dependencies and the xserver packages - in
particular, XF86Setup installed but xserver-vga16 wasn't present or
required.
I'm now writing this message from Netscape on the said machine, and it
all seems to be working fine.
Ian Redfern (redferni@logica.com).
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