Installation report 1 for beta 1

Charles Curley charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Nov 28 13:06:17 UTC 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:05:10PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> Acer Aspire 3503WLMI
>    SiS chipset, shared memory graphics, 1200x800 "Crhystal Brite"
> display, 512 Mbytes RAM, 80 GB disk, DVD-dl burner
>    Atheros wireless
>    Software modem
>    No floppy
>    No serial
> As the baseline, SuSE 10 detects all the above and installs drives and
> attempts
> to configure everything including dialup.
> 
> I'm doing a manual install from a local http server, booting from the
> boot.iso
> supplied.
> 
> The first point I wish to make goes to the use of dhcp options. I raised
> this
> on anaconda-list, but as I wasn't sufficiently persuasive then I will
> take it
> up again. Anaconda/pump can (and last I looked) did set vendor-options. This
> allows a DHCP client to ask for non-standard information from a DHCP server.
> DHCP3, a standard part of recent Red Hat/Fedora and many other
> distributions,
> and generally available for Unix, can be configured to recognise the vendor
> options and formulate its reply using that information.
> 
> "vendor" in this instance means Red Hat: organisation creating the vendor
> option gets to describe (or not) what specific vendor options are
> available and
> what they mean.
> 
> In the case of Anaconda, it could be used to specify the source of a
> kickstart
> file, or to request information to fill in the information required to
> complete
> various on-screen forms. In this specific instance, where I am
> testing/evaluating a new (beta) release, it would be convenient for me to
> specify the source URI for the installation media, maybe
> http://fedora.example.lan/beta1/i386/ - and, of course, timezone,
> keyboard and
> language choices.

John, you can use the DHCP server in Fedora to serve up the location
of a kickstart file. I do it routinely here. It involves adding a line
or two to your DHCP config file. See the Red Hat 9 Customization Guide
(http://www.redhat.net/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/pdf/rhl-cg-en-9.pdf).



> 
> Now, the installation has died and there's a traceback. This brings me to
> another gripe. I have a scrollable window of four lines. This
> impossiblly small
> (and persuaded me to not read the release notes). Someone needs to go to
> usability school!

Speaking of usability school, please do something about the hideous
line wrapping of this email.


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