What I hope is not in FC3

[Jim Cornette]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 22:42 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 22:32:54 -0500, Jim Cornette
>><fct-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>>5) not being able to do a normal graphical installation, without special
>>>parameters issued before the install.
>>
>>"normal" ?  I think your definition of "normal" has to be different than mine.
>>Because i can certaintly do a "normal" graphical installation with no
>>extra parameters on my "normal" hardware [...]
> 
> 
> As can I. I've done graphical installs even on a Pentium Pro (200MHz)
> with 64MB of RAM and a 1GB hard drive (just last week), and have done
> them flawlessly on dozens if not hundreds of other (usually faster)
> computers before. Been doing them since at least RHL-9, too.
> 
> What your problem is, I have no idea... but I can assure you that I and
> many, many, *many* computers do not share it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 

As mentioned in the reply to Jef, this is a new requirement because of 
newly added breakage regarding the particular chipset. I have tried 
several other computers that use different hardware, with success. One 
of them also uses the i810 driver and works better now than before FC3 
was developed. Actually, the computer with the 865G Graphics controller 
works much more reliably than with FC2 and even FC3T1.

My hope was that most computers will install without the need for 
special options. Since this issue was not mentioned in the release notes 
(Or I missed reading the portion while reading the release notes), this 
might catch a lot of people that install the more popular final 
releases. It would be bad to get poor feedback from masses of people 
having the installer bug out, whn their previous installations were 
pretty much flawless when using previous releases.

I'm for FC3 and realize that it is a great work, though some things 
might catch users by surprise, with a negative outlook from expectations.

Jim

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