[SM-Discuss] New development ISO available for testing

Jaka Kranjc lynx at mages.ath.cx
Sun Feb 10 08:34:34 EST 2008


I tried it in qemu and here is what I did if anyone is interested:
qemu-img create smgl.qemu 2G
qemu -m 364 -kernel-kqemu -boot d -hda smgl.qemu -cdrom 
smgl-devel-20080209.iso
qemu -m 364 -kernel-kqemu -hda smgl.qemu

Observations:
Works pretty well. :)

Like it was said earlier, the kernel timings are annoying.

A coloured PS1 would be very nice.

Typing back outputs 3 blank lines before any relevant info. So does help and 
todo (visible only on non-screenful texts). I guess this is from that cat 
wrapper? It looks wierd to me and the colored prompt would help with 
separation. You could also print one delimiter line, like *********** $step 
*************. Or a title (like the bootloader step already does //boldly//).

Is it intentional that jump doesn't display the respective todo? I think it 
would do better with the description shown.

For the bootloader step it would be nice to give the user a hint which kernel 
will get installed / where to look.

Going back from the install-opt-spells returns you to grub, even if that 
wasn't the previous step.

We should tell the user that they can exit the chroot at any time to check on 
todo/help (since they aren't available in there).

After the last step, next wraps to step 1.

The default inputrc doesn't support incremental searching (or it uses a 
different mapping - I'm used to pgup/pgdown). I think this is a spell "bug" 
(there is no default so "bug", but we provide an example, which doesn't have 
this).

I couldn't boot the installed system, but this seems like a qemu problem. It 
eats all my cpu and seemingly stalls.

LP

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