On 8/4/07, jimacornette@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jimacornette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 14:44 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > >> Not to mention the installation in text mode installs packages > >> completely different than the packages that were selected. Just a > >> caution. I ran a text installation yesterday which broke that way. > > > I get something similar with graphical installs. You remove some > things > > you don't want, they get put back in. They're not all dependencies, > as > > you can individually remove the post-installation. > > The problems for me seemed to be that the optional packages did not que > up properly. > The displayed package was not the actual package which was installed. > Also, packages like mc and k3b were listed as optional packages but > were not on the install cd. > The installer gave me the option to pick a host of games but not even > the kde or gnome games were installed. > There seem to not be care to the text installer. I expected the same > for text as with the GUI, minus the GUI eye candy. > Eventually I got the system tailored to my desired install choices via > yum, but not as smooth as a correct acting installer would have > resulted in. > Anyway, we have another Linux user, not by choice but because of > experimental adaptation because she destroyed her XP installation and > the "support department" (free of charge of course) installed Fedora to > get her back on the net. > The reason that I even used the text installer was because the GUI > installer could not open rpms at certain points in the installation. I > then decided to try the text installer which completed but with chance > packages vs. desired. > > Anyway, the tools for Linux post-install launched SMART which revealed > 3 bad sectors on the drive. I take it the bad sectors was on xp since > there was a mini-dump when the computer needed attention. Also, she had > 93% usage on the disk which was ntfs and Linux flagged this. I really > like all the information Linux provides to the user. > > Thanks to having ntfs-3g, transferring all docs from the xp install to > the Linux install was not a hard task to accomplish. The transfer of > bookmarks was a bit tricky from seamonkey xp bound onto seamonkey Linux. > > Anyway don't expect the text installer to provide exactly what the GUI > installer provides. It is usable if you get weird errors when using the > GUI installer. > > Sorry for the rambling and netscape.net formated mail. > > Jim I have used text mode installation many times in the past because Anaconda would select the disabled on-board video instead of the add-on slot mounted video. I had no problem selecting the packages that I wanted installed. Perhaps that's because I'm used to having to dig/click past the first settings to get the underlying choices. Note: Like some on this list I sure do miss the install everything option.
