[Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 beta 1
Maarten Vanraes
alien at rmail.be
Sat Feb 25 10:02:33 CET 2012
Op vrijdag 24 februari 2012 19:59:01 schreef Jeff Robins:
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> 1) I did the install from a flash drive using the x86_64 ISO.
> - I could not install any packages after installation
> - I finally figured out that I had to mount the flash ISO
> partition, but I don't think it was intuitive at first
> - Is there a way to detect installation from flash and let the
> user know that the ISO partition must be mounted?
> - I don't remember having to explicitly mount the DVD in th past
> - I never removed the flash after install, which is probably why I
> didn't think about it
for cdrom media, it complains about mounting it, i guess it could do the same
for unmounted partitions/nonexistant mount flash points?
> 2) The sound card section showed up twice on the page of other
> installation settings
> - Not sure what this page is called, but it lets you setup the
> network, video, proxy, etc
> - The second instance was directly after the first
> - I'm pretty sure I don't have 2 sound cards, but it is an
> integrated motherboard so I guess it's possible
> - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_CPU_on_Board/E35M1M_PRO/
you could've accidentally clicked on it twice? is this reproducable? after
install, check in /proc/snd/cards to see how many audio chips you have?
> 3) I installed a second NIC in the machine and the eth0 and eth1 aliases
> keep sometimes switch between the two
> - I already saw a bug report about this, but it is really annoying
that's definately an irritating bug, can you refer us to the bug report?
> 4) dhclient isn't run automatically. I have to run it manually
> - Network Center is set for automatic IP and dhclient is set as the
> DHCP client
this is likely related to 3
> 5) After installing the SSh Server I was unable to connect remotely
> - I had to add "SSHD: ALL" to /etc/hosts.allow
> - I set security to server when installing the distro
that's a feature
> 6) radeon-firmware Bug 1471
> - This has hit me on 3 of my 4 machines (Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 Beta
> - It was made worse by my inability to install ssh-server blindly
> - I tried to install it by switching to a terminal, logging in
> and using urpmi. It didn't work because of (1)
> - (3) and (4) didn't help either
> - The work-around from the Errata didn't work because the firmware
> wasn't installed
> - installing the firmware automatically rebuilt the initrd
there was a discussion about nonfree stuff in installation media, but i donno
what the conclusion was to that discussion.
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