[Vectorlinux-devel] VL6.0-SOHO-A1.9.19

[paul m. <pa...@wa...>]

Finally got a bit of time to try this. Quite a few items....

Installer. This time round, selecting 1280x800 works reasonably well. 
There are a few places where the screen fails to scale properly - the 
install review screen goes off to the right, and the System 
Administrator Account information drops off the bottom of the box.

Lag. I would have to say that it is completely unacceptable. Installing 
to a 2GHz Core2Duo laptop with 1.5 GB of RAM, the lag is dreadful. It 
takes almost 15 seconds for the installer to come up after the install 
desktop is started. Lag during some phases of the install is even worse. 
Especially when selecting partitions for the install, it is all too easy 
to make false selections because the screen lags so far behind mouse or 
keyboard input. The same applies to some of the information box updates 
- especially noticeable on errors during user creation. I hope this is 
temporary, because I would never use it in its current form.

Other problems. I selected to format my newly selected / partition. 
However, at the end of the install, the original contents (Zenwalk 6.2 
alpha) was still there - I found both the Vector kernel and the Zenwalk 
kernel, plus lots of other signs of the original contents. Obviously, 
the install failed to format the partition as instructed.

User creation. This may have been my problem initially. I got distracted 
at the critical moment and clicked next instead of 'create user'. When 
the error box came up, I clicked 'back' and re-entered the user details. 
When I clicked on 'create user', it still came up with an error - unable 
to create user.

:) I guess I'll go back and try again, though this time I'm going to 
blank the / partition before I start the install.....

paul.