Re: [Dragora-bug] Things on the Installation

[Nicolás Dato]

> With TAB.  For more information, read the KEYS, it's the first item of the 
> main menu.
Thanks :P

> It would be interesting if you remember what happens here to see if I can 
> reproduce it.
What I am reporting is like something not expected *by me* on a first
install, if you think they are fine and everything is working as
expected, then everything is ok :D

So, there are 3 things
-Some buttons can be selected by left-right arrow (and tab too), and
others (like the save changes) i could only select them with tab (now
you told me :P), this is not a big deal.
-I didn't understand very well how to select the swap partition,
because there is a [ ] that I thought it was to select the partition
to use as swap (but it was to select to check or not the partition),
the buttons Format and Continue confused me, thinking Continue was to
Continue (using the swap partition above) but without formating, and
Format button was if i wanted to format and continue using the
selected partition, then i realized all the <Continue> buttons in
setup skip the step, my bad interpretation perhaps, i expected
Continue to Continue without skiping
-Looks like checking [ ] worked the other way

So, here are the steps I did, between {}  i will put comments

Using qemu 2.2.0
$ qemu-system-i386 dragora.img -m 512 -smp 2 -boot menu=on -cdrom
dragora-2.2-i486.iso
(boots the cd)
$ fdisk /dev/sda
-> creo una particion primaria de 4G de tipo Linux (0x83)
-> creo una particion primaria de 1G de tipo Linux swap (0x82)
-> grabo la tabla de particiones
$ mkswap /dev/sda2 {or the swap is already formatted}
$ setup
-> start (<Ok)
-> Partition (<Ok>)
-> here i select (with SPACE) /dev/sda2 and click on <Continue>
{thinking i already did mkswap, no need for it, and now i undestand
that selecting it was to check for bad blocks, not to select /dev/sda2
to use it}
-> select /dev/sda1 <Ok>
-> specify format? <Yes>
-> ext4 <Ok>
-> select /dev/sda1 for checking bad blocks, <Format>
-> mount point for /dev/sda1? '/', <Ok>
-> /dev/sda1 appears again as ext4 on '/', <Continue> {Notice that
this time I select <Continue>, like i did with in the swap menu}
-> now appears the fstab summary, /dev/sda2 is not shown to be mounted
as swap {i thought i selected it}


If it should have used /dev/sda2 as swap even when clicking <Continue>
but not <Format>, well, in this cases it didn't happened, if what
happened was what is expected, my suggestion is to somehow tell the
user that <Continue> won't select swap, (like using <Skip>)

now, i exit setup (ctrl-c) and re run it
-> start
-> partition
-> selet /dev/sda2 (so it has [*]) and <Format>
-> message: "Formatting without checking for bad blocks...." {but i
had selected it to check for bad blocks}
-> Now appears the Linux Partitions menu


So, i think the main idea is that sometimes it was not clear to me
what was going to happen, if clicking Continue was like skipping the
step or not and the suggestion would be to be more clear what does the
button do

Thanks!



On 15 June 2015 at 18:23, Matias A. Fonzo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> El Mon, 15 Jun 2015 16:38:55 -0300
> Nicolás Dato <address@hidden> escribió:
>> This is my first time on dragora, so i am installing dragora 2.2-i486
>> on a vm (qemu)
>>
>> There is a little things i saw when installing (running setup),
>> perhaps some things have changed on the next dragora 3, and as i've
>> never installed dragora before, perhaps i didn't understand some ideas
>> on the installation
>>
>> When selecting the partition to use a swap, it shows something like
>>
>> [ ] /dev/sda2 Check for bad blocks
>> <Format> <Continue>
>>
>> I had run the setup script, then i don't remember why y stoped it and
>> re-run it, so i thought didn't need to re-format /dev/sda2 as swap as
>> it was formatted a moment ago.
>
> It would be interesting if you remember what happens here to see if I
> can reproduce it.
>
>> If i click on <Continue> , the partition is not selected to be used as
>> swap, one must click on <Format> to use a swap partition
>>
>> What do you think about changing the buttons so it says something like
>> <Format> <Continue (without swap)>
>> Or
>> <Format> <No Swap>
>> ?
>>
>> I didn't understand very well the [ ] select option on the swap menu,
>> it says "check for bad blocks", but if i left it [ ],  and click on
>> format, it reads "Formatting and checking for bad blocks", but if i
>> select it (becoming [*]) it says "Formatting without checking for bad
>> blocks"
>>
>
> Normally [*] is for check bad blocks.  And continue, can continue with
> or without a swap.
>
>>
>> And another thing, when the fstab summary is shown, it shows 2 buttons
>> <Save changes> <Continue>
>> But i cannot select <Save changes> (and i don't know what whould it
>> do, as clicking con <Continue> still saves the changes, which is what
>> i expected)
>>
>
> With TAB.  For more information, read the KEYS, it's the first item of
> the main menu.
>