On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:37 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 22:12 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:03, Jim Cornette wrote: > > > With a broken text installer and limiting the ability for the user to > > > run the graphical installer successfully, consideration on not releasing > > > a distro would be a wise decision. > > > > Where's the bug for the broken text installer? I'm pretty sure that 'linux > > video=vesa' still works too, to force the vesa driver, which according to the > > reporter does give some gui support. > > I filed a bug report and referenced the text installer being out of > sync. I'll files a bug report regarding selecting the customizing > packages via the F2 key shows packages from the group different from the > highlighted main group. I figured that this problem could not have been > overlooked. Someone would report or catch this problem. This was filed and I fixed it up on Tuesday-ish I believe > An option to help the many users trying to install Fedora with the GUI > would be to have a dialog box to allow selecting the "vesa" driver > instead of having the user search around for the video=vesa parameter > given to the installer. The problem is that for _most_ users, they're going to hit enter on their CD and go straight into graphical mode. Adding a step to configure your video card here is entirely the wrong answer as it can't be done in a way that's internationalized across all of the locales that are to be supported. Not to mention that text mode screens just look ugly to casual users :-) Post-FC6, I want to look at trying to use some of the more advanced syslinux menu'ing capabilities that are now present so that we can try to do a little more to lead people to things like this from the bootloader. But, as always, it's a matter of tradeoffs and time as to what gets done versus left behind for any given release. Jeremy -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list