[SoaS] Testing liveinst in SoaS-3

[Thomas C Gilliard]

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.
>
>