off to a nostart F18B start

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 23:25 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012-11-30 23:21 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata composed:
> 
> > Getting to the initial GUI seemed to take forever. Once there, I started at
> > what seemed to be the beginning, upper left of the block of stuff in the
> > middle, expecting to have to tell Anaconda the PC clock is set local. Once in
> > time configuration, I find not only is there no apparent way to set clock to
> > local time, Anaconda thinks no NTP server is configured even though it seemed
> > to agree with my specification of us.pool.ntp.org, and there is a way to exit
> > time configuration. What's the trick to getting out of time config?
> > Oooohhhhhhhhhh, it's top left. Is there any other UI on the planet where
> > where a done or OK button is at the upper left?
> 
> > Next, installation destination: it shows my HD with model number. I click it,
> > but nothing apparent happens. Oooohhhhhhhh, down at the botton below a desert
> > of whitespace, in mousetype, each click of the image alternately selects and
> > deselects several naked words instead of anything that obviously has anything
> > to do with the task at hand. So finally I figure out how to select a
> > partition, and when done specifying mount point and filesystem, the _prior_
> > partition has been set to / instead of the one I chose, and there's no way to
> > undo it!!!
> 
> > At this point, Anaconda locked up, but I was able to goto tty2 and reboot.
> 
> Forgot to mention, pretty much everything is about 2/3 the size it needs to 
> be in Anaconda. I found that *quoted* resolution on cmdline makes the ttys 
> acceptable, but Anaconda thinks it's OK to ignore that. What's needed on 
> cmdline to make Anaconda's text legible?

It's perfectly legible here. anaconda will just be using the default X
DPI, I think. I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for, it doesn't
do much different in terms of display from what oldUI did.
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