Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] New installer problem

[Paul M. <pa...@wa...>]

M0E Lnx wrote:

> Concole keymap is andled by vasm. I'm not doing anything for it on the
> gui insttaller. He needs to uncheck the "use localizations used during
> install" box from the root password stage to be able to set that up on
> first boot.

I can do that, but I've got to say it is completely counter-intuitive. 
If that is what is needed, you need to provide some explanation. 
Especially since the first part of the installer includes country and 
keyboard setup. I, and I'm sure others, assumed that the 'use 
localization used during install' meant to use the SELECTED localization.

Either provide a clear explanation, or assume that the selections made 
at the start of the install (country and keyboard layout) are what the 
user wants (otherwise why make them in the first place?).

> I don't know why the uid is still 1001. They must have something in the
> home partition with permissions granted to a uid 1000 for the installer
> to not be using that value

I certainly do. And again, this needs to be better handled. I'm not the 
only one who may have more than one user with a UID of 1000 for multiple 
reasons. The way its handled at the moment is not useful.

It isn't even very useful for someone who doesn't normally use multiple 
UID 1000 IDs. Given the changes made between the betas, having a new 
user for each beta install makes sense, otherwise any changes made to 
the user setup will not be visible when an existing user is imported.

Paul.