On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 18:08 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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.] it's not just minimal, it's 'anything without base-x'. but yeah. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
