Re: Installer RC2 w/ DragonFly RC2

[Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Pressey wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:22:45 +0200
> Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > This seems a very nice and mature release - I think it's ready for
> > 1.0.
> >
> > Some notes (non-critical):
> > - The twirling baton is a very nice touch :)
> > - The configure options at the end of the installation are nice. Not a
> > biggie, but if you have the time, could you please "predict" the home 
> > directory for the user as "/home/$username"?
>
>
> Doesn't it, if you leave it blank per the instructions on that form?
> (Same thing applies to login group and uid IIRC.)

It doesn't. Maybe because I changed fields with up/down arrow keys 
instead of Enter?

> As you might have guessed, these sorts of changes are harder, because
> they involve a change to the UI protocol, and they're implemented
> differently (sometimes radically differently) in different UI frontends.
> So we're delaying these sorts of changes until we can concentrate fully

Ok. No problem.

> This is probably because: you created a swap subpartition on your new
> system, the swap subpartition was mounted (swapon'ed) during the install
> process (to help ensure that the installer doesn't run out of memory,)
> and DragonFly doesn't yet support swapoff.

Maybe. It was before I was questioned about swap (I chose to ignore this 
error, and then a popup dialog appeared about swap).