Installation report 1 for beta 1

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Tue Nov 29 00:50:52 UTC 2005


On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:21:55AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:05:10PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> 


> 
> I'd downloading the doc to see whether you're telling me something I 
> don't know - I normally do kickstart installs, using PXE or a modified 
> boot CD, but I particularly wanted to do a normal interactive install 
> this time.
> 
> It might be that ks actually does much what I want; I've never done an 
> interactive ks install.
> 
> I was thinking, maybe
>  ... kbd=pc-us LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 TZ=Australia/Perth src=nfs://server/path

I vaguely recall that if you leave something out of the KS file,
Anaconda asks you. Or do one manual installation, and use the anaconda
file in /root as a basis for your KS file.

> >
> >
> >
> >>Now, the installation has died and there's a traceback. This brings me to
> >>another gripe. I have a scrollable window of four lines. This
> >>impossiblly small
> >>(and persuaded me to not read the release notes). Someone needs to go to
> >>usability school!
> >
> >
> >Speaking of usability school, please do something about the hideous
> >line wrapping of this email.
> 
> It's a mazing what Moz will do:-)
> 
> Helped with a little vim.

Thanks, much better.


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