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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:10:20 -0700 (MST)
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Subject: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)
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OK, finally had a chance to frag the hard drive and install 4.0-RC3 from cdrom
and see how it went. Here's my observations on the good:

 1) On the same hardware as I tested 4.0-RC and 4.0-RC2 on, now I no longer get
    those "long ATA probes"! This is awesome! Whatever was done, is great, now
    the machine boots very speedily.

 2) The "Standard Installation" is much better than "Novice". It was good to
    rename this.

 3) I chose the "A" option for partition/label and good, reasonable defaults
    were given to me.

 4) The "Standard Install" went flawlessly (despite my best attempts at pilot
    error :).

Now observations on a few nit-picky things:

 1) There is a typo (spelling error) in one of the dialogs I was presented. I
    was trying to force pilot error into the situation :) and got a dialog that
    contained the following line:

      "You can also chose "No" at the next prompt and go back into the
      installation menus to try and retry whichever operations failed."

    The word "chose" should be "choose." I'd supply a patch, but I only
    installed kernel source :(

 2) Again, while trying to inject pilot error, I created a FreeBSD partition of
    only 10Mb and gave that as the only slice the Label editor could deal
    with. When I hit 'A' to have it auto-decide, it came back with a dialog
    box:

      "Unable to create root partition. Too big?"

    I assume by what I gave to it, that it means to say "dummy, you didn't give
    me a big enough slice with which to work, try again." If that is the case,
    perhaps a small re-write of the dialog message is in order to help explain
    what has gone on and a possible course of action to correct the
    problem--like "give me a larger slice to work with here". In all honesty, I
    *meant* to create a 10Gb partition and typed so fast that my brain didn't
    snap that "10M" != "10G" ... and thus I presented a wierd situation to the
    Label editor.

The system is fast, GNOME+E. desktop is usable, kernel config went like a
charm. Looks *real* good from where I'm sittin'. Good work to all! Let's ship
this puppy. :)

-Jr

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