Bug#250007: Powerpc G4 Installation Report
On (20/05/04 13:13), Colin Watson wrote:
>
> clone 250007 -1
> reassign -1 yaboot-installer
> retitle -1 increase boot delay
> severity -1 minor
> thanks
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:42:05PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> [not sure about all your issues, I'll reply to a few bits I know about]
>
> > Partition Hard drives - I was wary of mucking up my sid install which is
> > my production workstation and so didn't explore too deeply but there
> > didn't seem to be the option to partition /dev/hda17 (which I'd set
> > aside for this install) to separate /var /usr. I suspect I didn't look
> > deep enough ;)
>
> Don't you just need to delete that partition and create some new ones,
> one of which is /var and one /usr?
Yes- I'm sure you're right - I suppose I was expecting some sort of
prompt and by the time I realised that I needed to do some partitioning,
I was someway into the installation. Being the first time I looked at
the installer, I think I was expecting the same level of interaction as
with the woody installer - not a criticism. I'll repeat with the next
beta release and see how it goes - it is way slicker than the woody
version ;)
>
> > Minor points - My system has OSX, sid and now sarge installed. Yaboot
> > was automatically configured to boot OSX or sarge but
> > 1. There is no delay setting in /etc/yaboot.conf to allow one to
> > choose OSX - unless your v quick ;)
>
> The delay is three seconds (yaboot uses the value of timeout if delay
> isn't set). I'll bump it up to five seconds for the Linux/OS X/etc.
> choice and ten seconds for the second-stage Linux choice. Does that
> sound OK?
Sounds fine - I have it normally set for 20 secs and then override on
boot but I guess that's just a personal perference. When you're
familiar with what's being presented then 5 secs is a long time; if
it's all new to you, it flashes by and you think.... what? ;) Maybe I'm
just slower than most ;)
> > 2. It would have been nice to have a boot option for the sid
> > installation automatically configured - definitely a low priority ;)
>
> Current daily builds have this; you'll get an hda16-Linux option or
> similar at the second stage.
Great ;)
Thanks
Clive
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