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[Ladislav Hagara <hgr AT vabo.cz>]

Moved from sm-sorcery to sm-discuss, it is more suitable. :-))

Just curious why do you need bc "calculator" for installing SMGL?
I agree it would be fine to have wireless-tools included on install ISO, try
bug report.

about wiki) I think wiki should be mention during installing, maybe on the 
last
screen before rebooting.

- lace -


> First off, let me say that compared to previous ISOs, installing with 0.7.1
> has been *great*!  Nearly everything compiled without problems, and setting
> everything up was generally a breeze.  A few comments now:
>
> 1. The ISO:
>
> There are two things I'd like two see included on the ISO.  The first is
> bc---this is one of those tools that I think should always "be there" in a
> distro, and one I use all the time, like sed and awk.
>
> The second is wireless_tools (I can't remember if it's a dash or an
> underscore...).  It's a little annoying to have to bring my wireless sytems
> up to my wiring closet after an install to cast this so I can use my
> wireless card with WEP, etc.  It would be even nicer if the questions like
> ESID and wireless keys would be included and set up during the install, but
> I could live with doing it manually as long as the tools were available.
>
> One other nice addition to the installer would be to be able to undo/redo
> actions.  An excellent example is that I accidentally created and mounted
> my /boot partition as xfs, and there was no way to undo that change.  I had
> to shell out, unmount the partition, recreate the filesystem, remount it
> correctly, and then shell out at the end of the install to fix the fstab
> before I rebooted.
>
> 2. Setup
>
> Can we get the X11 font directories set up automatically in
> /etc/fonts/local.fonts (I think that's the file, off the top of my head)?
> It took me a while to figure out that was the reason Mozilla Firebird
> wasn't coming up, and I don't remember having to add these manually in
> previous installs.
>
> Second, the devices in /etc/securetty are still listed under /devices, not
> /dev.  This caused me some alarm, as I wasn't able to log in as root after
> I cast Linux-PAM.  The first time this happened I thought I had
> fat-fingured the root password both times, booted from a rescue disc,
> changed the password, rebooted and it *still* didn't work.  So I figured
> I'd mangled something and started over with the install.  When it happened
> the second time I decided something else had happened and eventually came
> to the securetty file.
>
> Last, I've never really read the Wiki on installs, and was browsing around
> the other day.  I found out about compiling gcc (I'd been doing that),
> perl, gettext and glibc before doing the sorcery rebuild (hadn't been doing
> those).  I'm betting few people are going to read the Wiki before their
> first install, and am wondering if there is a way to add notes like this to
> the boot after the install, such as putting it in an motd, or root's
> .bashrc file (have .bashrc, with the message, and a .bashrc-normal, which
> gets copied over the first .bashrc after the the first login or something).
>  Just a couple of paragraphs saying they should cast these things, do their
> updates, do the rebuild, etc.  I think that would go a long way to making
> the install a little smoother.
>
> Wyatt
>
> Overall, excellent job guys!
>
> --
> Wyatt Draggoo
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