On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 17:18, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, folks. So, Athmane noticed that text mode firstboot doesn't really > happen in Fedora 16, as it's 'expected' to in the new base test case: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_base_firstboot > > we did a bit of investigation and found that this is kinda normal. > firstboot is in the base-x package group in comps. it doesn't get > installed if you do a regular text mode installation. So if you're doing > a minimal / text mode install, you don't get firstboot. I confirmed that > this is also the case in F15, and I'm pretty sure it's the same in F14 > and all the way back. This is clearly 'intentional' at some level, and I > don't think anyone complained about it in f14 or f15. Oh. Yeah, this has been happening at least since F14. I never opened a bug on it because I expected it was "you are too small to ride this ride" when going for a minimal install. [Not that I have been offiicially testing for this. I was just doing these installs on boxes where graphics makes no sense.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
