#4 Some bugs in version 1.0-development

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I've downloaded and started Virtual Linux on my
machine. The general impression is very, very good!
It'd a nice piece of work. I experimented earlier with
other distributions, which could be started directly
from CD, but they usually don't have the opportunity to
save current settings on the other partition. And you
need to reconfigure the system every time you boot it,
which is very inconvenient. Your system does store
current settings and it's the major advantage.

During the setup I've found several minor bugs/
misconfigurations:

1. Theris is a libgpm1 package installed, but no
gpm package. As a result, there is no mouse
available in text mode.

2. I use ne2000 compatible network card.
I needed to install manually (using modprobe)
the "ne" module, because it was not detected
automaticlly. But I get my IP-number from the
DHCP server. And it didn't work, because it
required module "af_packet" to be loaded at the
boot time. After I loaded it manually it worked.
Since it's a generic DHCP related problem, could
you please put "af_packet" module in the list of
modules which are automatically loaded during
reboot? (It's probably /etc/modules file)

3. I was a bit disappointed, that there is no
Netscape Communicator 4.X installed.
I like Mozilla, but I'd also like to have old
plain Netscape.

4. Now you don't ask user, where to store the
settings. You simply put it on the first
VFAT(?) partition. It would be nice, to be able
to customize this and allow the user to select
partition, which should be used for storage
of current configuration. It's also very nice,
to have the ability to tell, what parts of
current filesystem should be stored there.
For now it's only /etc and /root directtories,
but probably user wants to save something else
as well. I think, that changing your setup script
to manage that is not very difficult.

Hope that this project will improve and get better
and better!

Best regards,
Ivan Susanin

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi !

Thanks for all your thought's and ideas !
I have already reconfigured the setup script
to save more things , like /bin /sbin and so on, to enable
better updates, as the problem whith gpm :)
I have actually missed it :(
I have several reasons for the quick ' non user controlled'
setup, one of them might be to speed up boot, no confusing
dialogs for the Linux Newbie and so on so forth but i guess
i'll have to put in a choice, where user can choose where to
put settings and what to put there etc .

I have not really found out why the "#%%& module doesnt
load, the dhcp thing you mentioned, but i will release a
update package, where this issue will be solved !

You might ask, why save it on a fat partition ?
my idea, is that a fat partition wont take as much damage
as a ext2 or similar, if user resets computer during save or
other write job, thats why :)

Regards CrIxZ