Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 13:55:38 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010325135538.B31407@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Comments on installation process
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 25, Peter Becker wrote:
>
> 1) it worked pretty nice for me and I am impressed how much worked
> automatically. It looks very nice, even compared to the different
> Windows setups -- maybe the resolution used was a little bit too high,
I assume you speak from your Ultra10 with Creator3D ? The Creator3D
is a framebuffer card, the X11 server is not able to change the
resolution for this card.
> some things looked quite lost on the big screen. Is the I386 setup as
> good in detecting stuff?
Depends on the hardware you have.
> 3) A thing I always wonder why nobody does this: wouldn't it be useful
> to have two or three threads in the setup? After the partitions are
> choosen the computer has a lot of stuff to do _and_ has to ask a lot of
> question, which means a lot of waiting in a sequential installation.
> Wouldn't it be nice if those two things can be done at one time? The
No, the user should be able to make a complete setup before we make
anything which is not revertable.
> PS: something I'd like to have in a running system is more control on
> services from a high viewpoint. For example I'd like to turn HTTPD
> on/off with just a switch, maybe even with the option of
Use the YaST2 controlcenter and the rc.config editor.
Thorsten
-- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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