[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 10 April 2013 03:44, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
> I tried installing Mageia 3 Beta 4 on an ASUS 64-bit PC,
> a network install.
>
> A couple of problems I noticed:
>
> (1) insmoding xen_blkfront failed
>     /lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 96
>
>     (I was not using a virtual machine, this was an install onto
>     a physical PC)

already fixed

> (4) the installer doesn't redraw itself on an expose event,
>     so if you switch to another virtual console and back,
>     the installer is then a blank rectangle with rounded
>     corners, sometimes for quite a long time (minutes)

there's one single process, so expose event are managed once in a while
in rpm callback

> (5) a message,
>     "script failed for mailman_2.1.15-3.mga3-x86-64:"
>
>     (there was a blank line underneath but no more text)

the exact error should be in your /root/drakx/install.log (also included
in your /root/drakx/report.bug.xz)