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  • From: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] x86/ppc/x86-64 test ISO available (test3) [INSTALL REPORT]
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:55:40 +0100

Damien Mascord a écrit :

Hi,

I have just installed the x86 486 ISO. The installer is setup much more
nicely than last time I tried (about a year ago). Congrats on the
organization of the menus and the steps to install, it's quite clean now!

Thanks :-)

1) snd_wavefront and some other .ko kernel module was not present on the
ISO or the kernel "copied" accross the live system, and hence generated
errors on boot.

Can you tell me what needs to be enabled in kernel.config?

2) g++ is showing version 0 while installing... this is quite weird, not
sure if it's a problem or not :)

It's not a problem. g++ is really version 0 in the grimoire I used :-)

3) At the end of resurect portion, there is a one line:
Spell is missing.

Correct. This is a bug: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8471

Which seems to indicate that some array processing in the bash is a bit
funny
4) Since the CD doesn't have a "boot through mode" (ie, boot to hard
drive by default, press a key to boot from CD), it would be great if the
installer could "eject" the CD upon first reboot

Right. I though about this a long time ago. The main problem is that the installer would need to umount the CD before ejecting it and right now, it is not possible :-(

5) The enable services section is a bit confusing, especially since some
of the smgl services aren't enabled by default! Perhaps there should be
a "recommended" marker to say you really should start these services if
you want things to work... like network ! Also, short descriptions
would be nice :)

If someone would like to tell me the defaults, i'll be happy to set them.

6) For some reason, eth0.dev wasn't correctly created, and when booting
the device didn't come up properly. Is it possible for the installer to
detect what ethernet devices are present, and auto-create some default
.dev files? which we then go and edit ?

Known bugs: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8423
Already corrected. Just update your stable grimoire to get it.

7) /tmp has the suid bit set, which means that sorcery gets all funny,
and dies when you try to do a system-update or upgrade or whatever... cleanse has a cow too, but can't seem to fix the suid bit set on the
/tmp directory. chmod -s /tmp fixes this issue...

? /tmp, as well as /var/tmp needs to have the suid and sgid bits. Otherwise, user A will be able to create and user B will be able to delete (he is not the owner of the file, but he has write permissions in the directory). What sorcery errors are reported?

8) Since openssh is an optional spell to install, I chose that, since I
would like to ssh into the box once installed (I only have 1 monitor,
and no KVM :)). After starting the box, telinit run sshd restart gives
the error:
sshd - provider for facility network not configured.

Correct. This is a bug: http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8473

Other than the above things, it seems smooth :)
Cheers for your hard work!

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru




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