FC2 test1: install glitches and comments (resend, last one was too big)

[Ricky Ng-Adam]

Hello Rick!

Rick Johnson wrote:
> C'mon, at 19-25¢ per, I think using a CD-R is justifiable unless you 
> don't have easy access to a recycling facility. Not only that, but they 
> read much quicker for the install.

Ah? I didn't know that it was faster.  As for recycling... Never heard 
of CD recycling around here!
> 
>> -Just a Q about the boot diskette: I read somewhere that the kernel did
>> not fit anymore on a floppy, how does the boot diskette work?
> 
> It doesn't - that's why an ISO image is provided - they fit perfectly on 
> the business card or 110mb mini CD-R's. A CD-RW works as well.

So... When the install is proposing to create a boot diskette, it is in 
fact proposing to burn an ISO image??

>> -cpuspeed: Error could not open file for writing
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpu_governor
> 
> configure /etc/cpuspeed.conf with the correct module. On my dell, it was 
> speedstep-smi I believe. Once that was in, no more message, and I want 
> to say my battery life improved to boot - but that could be the placebo 
> effect :-) It would have been nice if this was auto-detected by kudzu 
> and then inserted though.

Hmmm, I think it would be more then nice...  It is not very 
professionnal to have Fedora switch back from normal boot screen to show 
that some service failed.

I've also changed the DRIVER entry to speedstep-smi and it doesn't show 
an error now.  As you said, no way of verifying if this is having any 
effects but... Thanks!

Someone has filed the same problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115595

I've commented on it with the info you provided.

  >> -Should be a way to configure auto-login as in Mandrake, especially for
>> Personal/Workstations install.  Frankly, I even like the idea of no
>> password for root for those kind of installs.
> 
> This can be done via the menu when configuring the login screen. Putting 
> it less in the open discourages this overall bad practice.

Yes... Bad practice on the server I understand, but on my own, personal, 
single user laptop? What is the reasoning?  Well, sure this is not 
Lindows or MDK, but no reason to be as friendly as possible with user's 
who have this on their laptop or desktop.

I think it is much worse to have the "Login Screen Setup" with the 
Security tab having "Allow root to login with GDM" and "Allow root to 
login remotely with GDM".