Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] SOHO Alpha2 is ready

[Sergey P. <fa...@gm...>]

Hmm, nevermind the kde, should be kdm thing, as it dies horribly when
I try to run fluxbox too.
I've switched to vesa drivers, instead of nv - well, now it isn't
dying, window managers just don't start.
Ok, investigating...

> Actually, the installer should list all of your partitions. You should
> be able to see their current fs to the very right of the listing
> entry.
Out of 4 partitions on sda, four on hda and three on hdb, only hda
partitions were shown for me. Though I'll retry it.

> You cannot select a linux mount point like /, /usr, /opt for it
> without formatting. The installer will actually warn you about this,
> and will only let you select /mnt/xyz[0-9] for it.
Emm, I was trying to set my /dev/sda3 as /mnt/win_d, particularly.

> We do need to debug the dual cd thing... I have not had chance to test
> this on real hardware, so I really dont know how accurate the code is.
Just combine that "Ok, I have another disk" with eject command.

> HOpe to get some time by the end of the week to test some more. Buf if
> I could get some more input from other users if this does/does not
> work for you all, also, the type of hardware involved... Desktop box /
> laptop cdrom units?
NEC DVD+RW ND-3520A.

> The initrd that boots for the installer is very limited, module wise,
> so your video will not always be the best using whatever was used
> during installation to run the installed system, but I think it's
> worth a shot.
Does new VasmCC provide you with graphical xorg options editor?
If it does, just launch it after first boot. On bare xorg, without any
wm, if you need.

> About the permissions problem. I'm going to need you guys to tell me
> how to set these
> Here is a link to the code that sets these, but I'm not sure if this
> is enough http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/trac/vinstall/browser/branches/speedy/MdlMain.module#L600
> basically, what that does is this "chown -R <user>:<user>
> /mnt/target/home/<user>"
I don't think that chowning to vanger.vanger is a good idea. It should be:
if sAccntName=="root" then chown -R root:root /mnt/target/root
  else chown -R sAccntName:users /mnt/target/home/sAccntName && chmod
755 /mnt/target/home/sAccntName
I don't think it's safe to chmod -R 755, people may have some
installed apps there.