[RULE] Some feedback and suggestions for Slinky 0.3.92

[Ingo Lantschner]

Hi,
we finally downloaded the Slinky ISO 0.3.92 and made our test. First of
all, it runs fine, we did not encounter any serious problem: The bug,
which forced us to use the Stage 2 Floppy seems to be solved, we even
could boot from the CD w/o any floppy. We selected only the package
TinyX/Fluxbox. Typing startx worked fine - we got the fluxboxdesktop.

Also we found the alread prepared lines in ~/.xinitrc. Pointing the
windowmanager to wmice, did not work. Later I realized that is by design,
since wmice must be installed by hand as already described here on the
list.

There are three points in the installationprocess which have the
potential to confuse someone:

1. At the beginning: One must type enter to start the shell and than
   type /scripts/setup.sh

   Suggestion: The already shown line "Waiting for enter to start ..."
               my be completed with the following line/text: "Hint:
               Pressing Enter now, will allow you start installation.
               After you see the prompt, you may type '/scripts/setup.sh'
               to start the installation-process."

2. After RH CD1 the system ejects the CD, askes for CD 2, reloads the
   CD-tray immediately, so that you have no chance to take the CD1 out
   and finger the CD2 in and then asks for the Slinky-CD. I guess this
   is because there is nothing to install from CD2.

3. At the end, when the MS Corefonts are installed, the legal advice
   should be terminated with q, which makes no sense since the EULA is
   not "lessed" on the screen.

   Suggestion: The line stating one should press 'q' should be removed.

I know, these are little things, but they make life for both the trainer
and the trainees hard.

Beside of that, may I ask Michael for an updated Slinky which includes
one more select-option for installing the ice-windowmanager (including
imlib and libungif). We definitly decided to use ice for the trainings
in Zambia and we do not want to make the installation of the basesystem
too complex. 

What we did not test yet, was the newly included option for restoring
XFree86, this will be done and reported later.

Thanks for the help you gave so far, bye Ingo.

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