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Bug#399737: Installation Report - Etch RC1 DVD does not install Desktop



Frans Pop wrote:
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:55, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:

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Display LVs in the LVM section of partitioning does not display all
LVs. See list above.  Need scrolling window here.

Could you provide a screenshot for this and explain exactly what is missing? Windows should become scrollable automatically when the data exceeds the size of the window.

Will provide a screenshot after Thanksgiving. Getting ready to leave town and do a turkey at my daughter's.

Basically, I have a test system currently with 22 LVs and only about 11 are shown.

Reboot:
Booted to logon prompt ok, but no X.  Had to apt-install xserver-xorg
and Gnome to get desktop even tho all should have been on the DVD.

During the installation you are presented with a list of tasks that can be selected. Are you sure you selected the "Desktop" task for installation? That should have given you both XOrg and GNOME. We test this extensively before release and are fairly sure it works correctly. The task may not be selected by default depending on the characteristics of your system (e.g. partition sizes).


I am sure the Desktop and Base system were selected. I have also seen this behavior with the netinst CD (previously reported, bz #397036). Perhaps it is something to do with the fact that I am using a 20GB LV for /, but also configure a small (100MB) ordinary linux 0x83 partition for boot? Is there something I can check before leaving the installer and rebooting?

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Regards,

Old Fart



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