[caiman-discuss] Just tried the new installer...

[Dave Miner]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Just thought I'd share my recent experience with the new installer (b70).
> 
> Personally, I never had any problems using the old one, but the new one does look much better.
> 
> Things that I thought were great:
> * Relatively few questions asked
> * Sane slice size defaults for whole disk option (In my case, 232GiB partition was split into four slices, 15GiB for root, 15GiB for second_root, 3.1GiB for swap, 198GiB for /export/home for a system with 2GiB of memory)
> * Automatic creation of second root for LU
> * Overall Look and Feel
> * "Felt" snappier than the old installer
> * After first boot, I installed the skge driver for my onboard gigabit ethernet, and nwam picked up everything via dhcp on the next reboot
> 

Thanks, Shawn!

> Things I suspect are known issues:
> * Help is not yet complete (such as going to the help menu in the debug terminal)

Since we've got an extremely minimal Gnome environment, that doesn't 
surprise me.

> * Warnings in debug terminal window from the window manager about the terminal setting min size of 1 for window, but also setting not resizeable

Known, I believe.

> * System has unqualified hostname warnings on first boot (is this related to the installer not having sane initial defaults?)
> 

You mean sendmail's whining?  There are various opinions on what ought 
to be done about that; mine is that sendmail ought to be disabled by 
default (desktop systems have no need of it that I can see), or that it 
should send those messages to its logfile rather than the console.

> Suggestions:
> * Display the log in a monospaced font when the user clicks the 'show log' (don't remember what it is labeled exactly) button at the end of installation

I'll let Frank respond to this...

> 
> Questions:
> * Is there a way to run the detection tool from the installer via a simple button? (I may be an idiot and have just overlooked this)

Nope, because it's not there at all.  Future enhancement.

Dave