Rahul -- should I keep CC'ing the moderated fedora-docs-list? My last reply is held up for moderation and I haven't received approval or disapproval yet. Well, likely this is the last reply anyway. Thank you for your participation on fedora-list in this matter. As before, comments interspersed below. At 3:27 PM +0530 6/12/05, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Hi [Tony Nelson wrote:] >>Well, I just mention it as something unclear from both FC3 and FC4 release >>notes. It seems odd that mediacheck would need something to read the disk >>successfully, and yet the real install surely doesn't. >> >> >For my understanding this has to do with faulty cd-rom drives which >refuse to turn off dma even when explicitly instructed to do so by the >kernel. Well, you probably get my point. I hope somebody who knows will chime in and put this to rest. >>Well, the release notes would be a good place to put a (full) link to that >>sort of thing. Especially with the bug or whatever in mediacheck, there >>might be lots of people facing this roadblock when installing on a Windows >>machine, as I did, and I had enough trouble figuring out how to do the more >>mature MD5 checksum stuff. >> >> >We could have this in the download page itself now. I googled this >information after the release notes was made. Well, good. Now add it! (I'm not trying to make you feel bad through criticism; I'm trying to clear up things that would (have) made the installation hard for me to do, in hopes of helping others.) >>>After the installation. Run level really doesnt matter. >>> >>> >> >>!! From the tone, I thought Gnome wouldn't work at all. >> >> >It might not. Wouldn't this leave the user in a confusing state with no UI? Unless they went to one of the hidden 6 terminals? ... >>>>6.1.4 Is [slocate] used by Actions -> Search for Files? (Apparantly yes.) ... >>>I dont think gnome-search-tool using slocate. It is not a build >>>dependency. It doesnt seem to be linked to the binary (ldd). Its not >>>mentioned in the help file either >>> >>> >> >>I saw it in the FC3 Search for Files help Introduction section: "Search for >>Files uses the find, grep, and locate UNIX commands". Maybe that's not >>slocate, but man locate brought up the slocate man page. Don't know about >>FC4. >> >> > >I forgot to mention that my current system is RHEL3 one so things might >be different for the search tool in FC4. Many of these problems could be >avoided by having more people look into it during the test releases(Yes, >they had release notes too) . Some of these are just prioritizing for >lack of time in relation to the amount of work necessary . Filing >detailed bug reports and initiating early discussions would be most >helpful. You could even request CVS access and provide content yourself >for that matter. Thank you for your feedback You're welcome. I didn't test FC4 because I only started using Linux about 3 weeks ago, and I'm pretty confused even using a stable release. That's why my comments mostly reflect things that a confused user might have trouble with. Maybe I'll be up to testing FC5. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
