installation report : ubuntu iso, D865PERL intel based mobo system.

[Sivan]

Hi List!

Just finished my new ubuntu install, over the
following hardware:

  D865PERL mother board, ICH5 chipset
  nVidia GeForce2 GTS 32MB Video Ram
  SBLive! sound card.
  USB Kbd & mouse through a FLATRON795FT PLus USB hub
  P-IV 2.6C Ghz processor HT supported.
  512MB DDR 400MHz RAM
  TOSHIBA SD-M1502 DVD ROM Drive
  LITEON CD-RW SOHR-5238S CDRW Drive


Installation experience:
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   Installation was a nice new breeze compared to my
first experience with bf2.4 and sarge d-i, everything
was seem to be detected correctly, and set up
accordingly. Was also blazing fast (i wonder if it's
my hardware that's to blame for this solely :) ) also
and pretty straight forward. 

Some points worth mentioning:
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1) Trying to choose my language yielded "Installation
cannot continue" red curses window. Strange, it didn't
happen on the QEMU test. hebrew just didn't work post
install and seemed that the correct codepage was
missing. However I went back and continued using plain
english.

2) On the package deployment and installation phase,
there were countless packages that reported to be
missing dependencies and thus couldn't be installed at
the time. This tossed me back to an aptitude screen,
in which I was supposed (d-i specifics?) to manually
satisfy the missing dependencies. i just did again the
"gnome" meta package from aptitude and continues. I
have yet to stumble upon missing packages or
functionalities at least on the gnome gui desktop. I
hate to see the layman getting scared off by this :)

3) I don't know how important that is, but as someone
used to hear music on the works, I believe the layman
would not know what would be the right CD /dev entry
for him to tell the CDPLayer about it. having 2 cd
devices, the player was outofthebox configured to use
to first one on the cable, any way to make some
abstraction for it and let him choos the "First CD
device in your system" or the second?

4) Menu layout seems nice and appealing, however I'd
suggest adding some more preset stuff to the desktop,
like the Home folder link and  maybe some other User
specific presets.

5)Sound seems to not be working. running rythmbox
yields "Couldn't open /dev/dsp".


More on this to come :)

Sivan




		
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