On Tuesday 24 April 2007 11:05:16 Jordi Massaguer i Pla wrote:

I am asking you some testing and feedback about it. You can download the latest builds from:

http://instlux.sourceforge.net/testing_builds/ Hi Jordi,

Sascha and me have done some basic testing of your test builds. instlux works quite well so far. We can also verify that it is working for SATA harddisks. We discovered only some minor issues: #1 Find Windows partion find --set-root /autoexec.bat This would break on several windows installation on different partions. Even on windows installation which don't have a "autoexec.bat" file in place. (At least one box i tested with a vendor customized Windows XP doesn't have one.) We enhanced your nsis script so it create a "stamp file" to mark the Window partition which triggered the instlux installation: find --set-root /instlux-hitme.txt ... should be very unique :) (Feel free to rename the file in something more unique) #2 Translations Updated the German translation ... not quite sure about the quality of the other translations. Maybe you should make a call for proof reading. #3 Use system screen resolution and selected language instlux should now start the installation in the user chosen language. The installation system gets booted with vga=0xXXX parameter and splash=silent. The screen resolution from the Windows installation is used to determine the vga value. For some reason the splash screen is not working .. but i guess your initrd is customized and not the original one - right? The nsis system plugin is required to get the system resolution http://nsis.sourceforge.net/System_plug-in TODO: Some languages aren't handled yet in the nsis script. #4 instlux grub - timeout 0 The grub of instlux boots know the installation immediately. No need to bother the user two times with different boot managers. #5 Check minimum amount of RAM / Harddisk free space (TODO) For the network installation builds instlux should check if the minimum amount of RAM is avaliable. If not instlux should give a warning. Maybe we could do something similar to check if enough harddisk space is left and give warnings. #6 make_instlux.py changes Don't call makensis with absolute path, my version is very very customized. Maybe we should provide a nsis package with all the required plugins in the oSBS. All changes are attachted as patch from the latest revision of SVN. I hope you could commit them upstream. Beside the background color change to #7ac142 this should be still distribution independent... best regards, Daniel