Wow, is it me, or is the installer for 6.2 a big step backwards? I've
had all kinds of trouble with it, in stark contrast to the 6.0
installer, which was fast and reliable.
1. Twice, on two very different computers -- a PII 266 laptop and a
Celeron 500 workstation -- the new graphic installer has completely
frozen when it was nearly finished. In one case, it was far enough
along that the system ran after a hard boot; in the second case, it
was completely hosed. Never mind that nonsense; I'll stick with the
text installer, thanks.
2. Neither the graphic nor the text-based installers give me any
indication of the accumulated disk space requirements of the selected
packages! This is crucial information, folks, and it was present in
the 6.0 installer. What happened?
3. Why are the available monitor types in XConfigurator no longer in
alphabetical order? That's quite a pain, and at first led me to
believe that the LCD options had been dismissed!
4. Disk Druid has become even dumber. It used to be that it
occasionally lost track of how much disk space was really available,
and the cure was to select "back" and "save changes to partition
table", and then re-enter Druid. Now that doesn't work. The only way
I've found to correct the problem is to back completely out and use
fdisk to rewrite the partition table.
5. X configuration during install consistently fails for me. I have
to skip it and run Xconfigurator afterwards. Not a big deal, but it
never used to be a problem.
One plus: the boot-time new-hardware configuration works pretty well,
so far. It correctly handled a PCI network card (SMC 1211TX), but
failed to properly set up the /dev/modem link for a new modem at
/dev/ttyS1, which would have been helpful.
-d
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