[Mageia-discuss] First impressions

Daniel Kreuter daniel.kreuter85 at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 15 21:43:30 CET 2011


in the errata is written that you should use virtualbox version 4.x and with
that version everything works fine.

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:34 PM, Maarten Vanraes
<maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>wrote:

> These are my own very conchise first impressions:
>
> overall, i'm very impressed with what i see. i thought it'd be worse.
>
>
> - no rescue (as expected, even though the option is listed)
> - when looking at the grub/gfxboot menu?, the text only shows 1 or 2
> seconds
> after the background
> - in installation, the backgrounds aren't anti-aliased (font also looks
> abit
> odd; allthough it could be the vbox)
> - diskdrake still has a star icon(also wrong scaled) when saying "use free
> space"
> - do we need a license agreement? can we not skip this?
> - ext4 by default
> - no btrfs? (except in advanced setup)
> - core media
> This screen was never clear to me, and i never selected it, however,
> perhaps
> for iso installation, a mirror repository should be automatically there and
> selected by default? so that if there's updates, they can already be used
> during installation... ? WDYT?
> - i selected HTTP and it installed a few packages so i could enable
> networking
> (2min)
> - the partition step kept being highlighted, even when i was configuring
> network...
> - http://distrib-
> coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64 didn't
> seem to
> work when configuring additional media
> - KDE choice (very funny artwork :-D )
> - installing (5min)
> - when configuring, wizard said my password was trivial to guess, even
> though i
> had letter and digits in it with total length 8
> - updating after install
> - when updating, the messages had tiny fonts suddenly.
> - rebooting system
> - booting looked fine, nice gfxboot screen (this did not have the 1 a 2
> second
> delay)
> - i do notice F1 F2 F3 but no visible text next to it...?
> - because of me having vbox3, the guest machine just crashed when X was
> appearing.
> - restarting (using safe mode this time), that worked fine into single user
> mode
> - init 3 (gave some warnings but looked ok generally)
> - messages about gpg-agent being started...
> - "su -" has the same message
> - non-free was enabled by default
> - i enabled tainted
> - perhaps the iso media should be removed after installation and when
> updated
> media are installed? it keeps requesting for the DVD...
> - vim didn't show a color scheme for /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg .
> - trying to update with urpmi --auto-select showed me that i had an
> orphaned
> package ? kernel-desktop-devel ? odd...
> - i noticed sshd wasn't installed by default, neither was bash-completion
> - trying init 5 didn't work
> - i removed x11-driver-video-vboxvideo
> - init 5 said that display manager didn't work
> - vbox3 didn't seem to have a way to use a different emulated driver...
>
>
> I don't really want to upgrade to vbox4, in fear of destroying my other
> virtual machines, so compatibility would be very nice...
>
>
> logs vbox3 guest: (vbox3 is still in 2010.2, so perhaps we should have
> vbox3
> compatibility?)
> ----------------------
> 00:37:49.040 Guest Additions information report: additionsVersion =
> 0x00010004
> osType = 0x00053100
> 00:37:49.040 Guest Additions capability report: (0x0) seamless: no,
> hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: no
> 00:37:49.040 Guest reported fixed hypervisor window at 0x0000000001000000
> (size
> = 0xc00000, rc = VINF_SUCCESS)
> 00:37:49.051 Guest Log: vboxguest: major 0, IRQ 20, I/O port d020, MMIO at
> 00000000f0400000 (size 0x400000)
> 00:37:50.139 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented)
> 00:37:50.139 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented)
> 00:37:50.142 Audio: set_record_source ars=0 als=0 (not implemented)
> 00:37:54.461 SharedFolders host service: connected, u32ClientID = 3
> 00:37:56.042 NAT: IPv6 not supported
> 00:37:57.282 Guest Additions capability report: (0x4) seamless: no,
> hostWindowMapping: no, graphics: yes
> 00:37:57.283 Display::handleDisplayResize(): uScreenId = 0,
> pvVRAM=00007f7959303000 w=1440 h=1050 bpp=32 cbLine=0x1F400
>
>
>
>


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Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Greetings

Daniel Kreuter
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