[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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