[Mageia-dev] beta 4 installer notes

[Liam R E Quin]

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)

(2) During installation sometimes the wifi would go down.
    I'd get a message,
    Some files are missing [list of packages]
    try to continue?

    If you scroll down the list of packages you see another
    message,
    retry?

    There's a do not ask again button.

    It's not at all clear - does "do not ask again" mean
    "do not attempt to download packages a second time in
    the future"?
    Please reword so it's clear...

(3) It might be better if, on a download failure, the installer
    checked the network was still up.

(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)

(5) a message,
    "script failed for mailman_2.1.15-3.mga3-x86-64:"

    (there was a blank line underneath but no more text)

Overall the install seems OK, although I don't know which packages were
missed...

Liam

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