Getting close here folks! Looking good.

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:57, Craig White wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:17 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I'm not sure why, Craig, but when I rebooted after the install, and
>> firstboot ran, I expected it to ask me to setup a user account.  But
>> it didn't, and like the missing crontab file, which it appears I am
>> not the only one on that point, I have NDI why.
>
>----
>depends how/what you install.
>
>I noticed a difference if I do a minimum install (no X, GNOME, etc.)
>that firstboot is really basic and no user setup in TUI mode. There is a
>big difference on firstboot between GUI and TUI.
>
And I did that install in text mode.  I always boot to runlevel 3, login 
and do the startx from there, basicly so I'm not trapped in a restart x 
situation for 15 minutes until x gives up in case x miss-fires.

>As for things like crontab and other anomalies, from install, I
>personally find it hard to believe that the files just magically appear
>as you had reported. Thankfully, I am not a package maintainer so I
>wouldn't have to try to ascertain what didn't work as expected from the
>bugzilla entry which you probably didn't create anyway. Since it's not a
>bug if it isn't in bugzilla, your report to this list while curious and
>possibly provocative ultimately can only be considered anecdotal.

Bugzilla hates me I swear, on mondays, wednesdays and saturdays it will 
not accept my password.  Or is it the other way around?  Thats a PITA 
anyway.  Since there are tools to let bugzilla know who's calling from 
their OS fingerprint, that ought to be good enough to let a linux user in 
& lock out the winderz weinies.  But I'm not the bugzilla maintainer, 
thanks to God and greyhounds. :)

>Craig

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