Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Installer news

[Robert L. <vec...@ya...>]

OK I for one am in agreement if the auto partition scheme isn't just about perfect lets sideline it way to risky. The grub is a great idea I can't tell you how many times I have seen posts to the effect that VL was not even tried because of no grub. So thats all good. To get more testing beyond our little circle here there are two critical things that need fixing in the installer. The first being that the installer fails most of the time to read the package files from the cd media that it was booted from. It will install fine from an iso image on a hd partition but thats a bit much to expect from a casual tester. The other is that both root and user passwords are not being saved during installation. One can log in as root and enter with no password, as user the entered password never works.
I think some more time needs to be spent on those two areas then we can expand our horizons with a larger testing group. Just my humble opinion.
But beyond those two areas the installer is coming along nicely.

Cheers,
Robert

Robert Lange
vec...@ya...
http://www.vectorlinux.com


--- On Wed, 7/1/09, M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...> wrote:

> From: M0E Lnx <m0...@gm...>
> Subject: [Vectorlinux-devel] Installer news
> To: "Vector Linux developer's list" <vec...@li...>
> Received: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 4:01 PM
> Hi all
> 
> Here is the latest news to the installer.
> I have decided to drop the automatic partitioning option.
> I know everyone was getting pumped up about it, but I feel
> there are too
> many risks involved, and we simply may not be able to
> support all the
> complaints about how the installer borked somebody's hard
> drives and
> ended up not installing after all.
> 
> The main reason behind this is that my test results are a
> hit and miss.
> It would work 2/3 times, and then I'd end up with some
> weird results.
> I do believe the embedded gparted utility will suffice for
> now for
> custimized partitioning.
> 
> I will keep the code in there, just in case we want to
> revive it in the
> future.
> 
> ANOTHER CHANGE
> I have unleashed grub as a bootloader option.
> This one is kind of tricky... although, a lot easier to
> setup than lilo
> is IMO.
> The iffy part is that it is grub2, I couldn't get any
> support for old
> grub @ #grub in freenode, so I thought grub2 would just as
> good as any.
> 
> I have tested in VM and grub does work for me... so it is
> time for you
> guys to start testing
> I managed to get the installed system to boot and
> everything.
> 
> I'd like to get you guys to weigh in on these decissions,
> good/bad/suggestions... shoot.
> 
> @ Uelsk8s
> I need a new ISO with the following things in it.
> + Include the packages in
> http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/svn/vinstall/deps in the
> ISO
> + Include the new grub2 package in the initrd (i need the
> grub command
> available during installation)
> + I noticed on first boot, there is no default xsession
> pre-selected.
> So if there is no xterm, x fails... we need to either
> pre-select
> something and/or add xterm so that the failsafe session
> starts up.
> 
> That's all I got for now...
> I await new iso and bug reports.
> 
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