And I have one more suggestion. I ran into this while upgrading via CD from 9.0 B1 to B2...when doing an "expert upgrade" and it comes to package selection time it gets VERY confusing. If you select all the groups of packages you want to upgrade by ticking next to them (and turn off individual package selection) the installer ADDS the space needed to that for the space needed to upgrade the already installed packages often making the amount calculated more that the partition size. To avoid this, you must untick everything then it calculates only the amount of space needed to upgrade the installed packages. I would venture to say this screen is not even necessary when doing an update as once installed packages are detected and updates on the CD are found to be available shouldn't it just start updating them??
I had to figure out what the heck the installer was doing before I could proceed. NOT good for newbies. Cheers, Jason allen wrote: > I would like to 2nd this concept. > > > Also I would like to add a little something for some day in the future, > maybe... > > Follow the thought, it would be too hard to describe otherwise... > > 1. Say CD1 is a minimal installer and a file system, rudimentary, ready to > go. ( And yes, I've actually created such a thing on contract for a > company in the Northwest so I know this pretty well... ) > > 2. You do the "install" and partition, and format, and BLLLLLAAAAMMMM ! > > Your whole entire basic file system is copied over ready to go. > > 3. Reboot. > > 4. Now add the things you want. > > How hard is that ? > > I don't want to start a flame thing, but compared to this sort of capability, > initially, I do not like rpm's. > > This sort of "install" is a LOT faster, a LOT LOT faster. > > Heck, you could even fit a few more architecture specific base file systems > on there... Maybe just X needs to "go on" the rpm way initially... > > Is the rpms thing really so necessary all the way "from the beginning" ? > > ( Humble and sincere question ) > > The other thing is that perhaps you really don't need to download a whole > bunch of ISO's. Maybe just part of one. The rest can install itself as > needed over the net... uprmi.addmedia (somewhere) urpmi.finishinstalling ;) > > ? > > -AEF > > > On Monday 12 August 2002 08:18 pm, Austin Acton wrote: > > <snips> > >>Hello! >> >>I only have one request to add to v9.0 in the installer. I want an >>"Install All" button - ala Redhat. Disks are cheap. The time required to >>get the system fully operational isn't. Having an install all capability >>would be a real productivity enhancer for one-off configurations. >> >>It would be even nicer if all extra services beyond those required to >>normally operate the system are OFF by default when installed. That way, >>you don't soak up memory and add more security holes. (At least until >>the software is configured > > >
