On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:30:44AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2000, fred smith wrote:
> > One other small bit of retardedness in the installer:
> >
> > I've got a 3-button mouse which emulates a Mouse Systems mouse. If it is
> > switched into 3-button mode, the installer refuses to run in GUI mode.
> > I've seen this on 3 different machines, in fact. So, the only way to run
> > the GUI installer is to switch it into 2-button Microsoft mode, then
> > reconfigure the mouse when done. Whatta pain.
> >
> There's only so much space available on the "boot disk" for
> drivers, which is one reason why some stuff that is
> supported by linux is not supported at install time, due to
> no drivers available in the boot image on the CD. Just
> because the CD has drivers for your wierd (not saying your
> mouse is "non-standard" or anything) hardware AFTER
> install, doesn't mean that there is room in the boot image
> for that.
OK, I can understand that. But it says something like "GUi install failed"
or something equally "helpful". It'd be nice to be told what aspect of the
GUI install setup failed, as it took me some hacking around to notice that
it works on a MS mouse. I mean, if we knew why it failed, and if we cared,
we could perhaps do something about it.
Further, having set the rodent into MS-compatibility mode, when running
the installer it asks what kindof mouse I have. If I tell it Mouse Systems,
the mouse then quits working for the duration of the instal. Only a
minor glitch, to be sure, but not user-friendly.
Fred
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