Joey Hess wrote: > tony mancill wrote: >> I built i386-xfce-CD-1 [0] using jigdo and didn't get very far due to >> missing kernel modules, which meant no support for the NIC. > > Yes, it's known to be broken, should be fixed in next week's build. Cool. >> Something else I just noticed - the spashscreen right after starting >> "installgui" doesn't look right. (See second attachment.) The GUI after >> that, however, looks fabulous! BTW, it's evident from the screenshots that >> I'm doing this testing under VMware. > > That's not a splashscreen, that's a transient mess that comes up > displaying whatever was previously in video memory before it > writes anything to the screen. Ah, thanks for the clarification. > Your screenshot of the running installer, BTW, is not a GUI, that's the > text mode installer. Either the GUI installer failed to start and fell > back to this, or you didn't start it with installgui for that > screenshot. Yes, it's the latter. I did some testing with installgui after I ran across the modules problem using the default text-based installer. XFCE has quickly supplanted both what I use and recommend to others when I advocate switching to Linux (and I still prefer Debian to Xubuntu), so thank you for your work on this. I'm looking forward to testing more next week. Cheers, tony
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