20040901 install notes on Powerbook

[James Troup]

Hi,

My replacement Powerbook arrived this morning so I tried out the
20040901 ISO with it.  Generally it worked fine, couple of minor
comments/questions/reminders:

o I was prompted for whether or not I wanted to use firewire ethernet?
  I thought we'd disabled that...

o base-config talks about setting root password in it's introductory
  dialog but our installation process doesn't do this anymore.

o After entering password for the new user a second time there's a
  noticeable pause as the CD rom spins up.  Then random "scary"
  apt-get output as it preinstalls mdetect etc.  Might be nice to
  prefix this with a note to say what's about to happen?

o There's a long pause after "Initializing package states... Done"
  (i.e. while it's trying to work out what to install for
  ubuntu-desktop).  Might be nice if whatever this is (aptitude?)
  printed something while it was thinking?

o When there's an uninstallable package (as there is today), the
  dialog talks about going back up to select different packages, but
  a) the user didn't select the packages, b) the solution (use
  aptitiude) is non-obvious.

o <fuzzy>One of the partitioning dialogs claims you'll be given a
  chance to edit the partitions, but you aren't really without
  resorting to 'go back' which then drops you out of the nice
  automation.</fuzzy>

o ubuntu-artwork no longer depends on suede-icons leading to
  "Computer" and "Wastebasket" being generic 'paper' icons.  (Thanks
  to seb128 for diagnosis)

o <whine>Wrong permission for /dev/pmu device</whine> in gnome still.

o Still no 2nd/3rd mouse button mappings for powerbooks.

o xscreensaver doesn't password-lock by default yet.

-- 
James