[SoaS] Testing liveinst in SoaS-3
Thomas C Gilliard
satellit at bendbroadband.com
Sun May 23 17:05:14 EDT 2010
Bernie:
Could some of this be in KS file?
Tom Gilliard
satellit
Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> yesterday we evaluated a nightly compose of SoaS-3 on a Toshiba laptop
> of one of our teacher trainers.
>
> Hardware support was perfect and the overall impression was very good.
> However, installation to hard drive with liveinst could use some tuning:
>
>
> * installer asks for way too many technical questions such as hostname,
> root password... Most of these should be unnecessary for SoaS.
>
> * By default, liveinst tries to create a complicated partition layout
> using LVM + swap + boot + root. Just root should be enough on any
> computer which can already boot SoaS just fine from USB.
>
>
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#liveinst_command_to_install_to_Hard-Disk.2FUSB_from_Soas_CD
Alternate:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry#zyx-liveinstaller_Instructions_for_Mirabelle_f13
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ZyX-LiveInstaller
(advantage here is with SugarClone (1) customizations are preserved on
non-live HD/USB install and no gdm logins or firstboot are required on
new install:)
(1) http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone
> * After installation, firstboot bothers the user with more silly
> questions. The firstboot package could probably be uninstalled.
>
> * No automatic login after installation. You get GDM and you have to
> key-in a password, which is very un-sweet :-/
>
>
Autologin can be enabled with this edit:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/AutoLogin.txt
> * After installation, sudo does not work out of the box. (this is one
> of the major annoyances of Fedora, it should be fixed upstream too)
>
> I'll follow up with additional comments as we deploy SoaS on more
> computers and collect feedback from more formadores.
>
>
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