Tom Schaefer wrote:

Some areas for you to fix:

1. When installing from CD 1, packages determined to be on CD 2 and 3 are not allowed to be installed during the first pass install. The friggin' installer just blows past the prompt and the user is not allowed to insert the other CDs.

There is some sort of bug that does not prompt for CD 2 or 3. I have found that if I insert the CD I want to install from, then run YAst, Yast seems to determine that there are a bunch of packages that weren't installed. DUH. Then, it seems to install them - but only the packages for the CD that is currently in the drive. This behavior is somewhat inconsistent, but predictable. Then, after installing packages from the second CD, I can exit Yast, remove the CD, then insert CD 3 and run Yast, who happens to "discover" that there are packages that weren't installed. The I can install them.

I thought you would have fixed this, as it was a problem in 5.0.

2. After the install "appears" to be done, leaving the user with a login prompt and no clue that you have a bunch of background processes running, and no idea of whether rebooting at this time is wise or not.

You get a message which tells you what's going on before the login prompt appears. It also tells you that you can watch the scripts running on console 9.

However, by probing around, I see the Yast installer is unpacking MAN pages and all sorts of other stuff, unbeknownst to the user. You need to alert the installer that something else is happening.

It's generating a locate DB, a apropos DB, doublechecks the permissions, etc.

I have noticed that if you reboot too soon, Yast appears to be activated at boot up to either finish or do MORE stuff, which is not properly explained. So I never really know if everything has been installed properly.

If you install the system the very first time, you can't switch the CDs because your root filestystem is on CD1. That's why yast is started right after rebooting the system. It should know complete the installation and ask you for CD2 and or CD3 to get the missing packages installed. This always worked for me, so I wonder about your problems... ?! Then Yast starts some scripts like told above. If these scripts don't get enough time to finish (because of a reboot) the procedure starts again... So look at console 9 (like the message tells you) before you reboot your system. If anything has finished processing Ciao, BB -- Bodo Bauer S.u.S.E., LLC fon +1-510-835 7873 bb@suse.de 458 Santa Clara Avenue fax +1-510-835 7875 http//www.suse.com Oakland CA, 94610 USA -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e