This weekend I installed Colony 3 onto an IBM Thinkpad T23 that I had lying around, waiting to be sold. <br>
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The install went really well, I was glad to see that the password
dialogues had been improved, and that the second stage installer had a
progress bar. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/17/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Zimmerman</b> <<a href="mailto:mdz@ubuntu.com">mdz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If you test it, be sure to send us a report to<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">
ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a>.<br><br>There have been many improvements and bugfixes since Colony 2, but here are<br>a few highlights:<br><br> - The second stage installer now has a progress bar, rather than massive<br>
amounts of scrolling text</blockquote><div><br>
Very nice. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - The much-awaited USplash graphical boot feature is included; though its<br> full functionality is not yet enabled, it displays a graphical boot
<br> screen and it is important for us to know that it works on a wide<br> variety of hardware before proceeding. To activate it, run the<br> following command in a terminal after installing or upgrading:<br><br>
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`</blockquote><div><br>
This works, at least partially. I always see the boot splash, but
it seems to dissappear before the system is fully started. I'm
not sure if it's because of errors during boot, but it doesn't seemt to
always happen at the same time. <br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> - Special keys on laptops should work out of the box in more cases</blockquote>
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Yes, all the special keys seemed to work, although I wasn't able to bring the laptop back up from a hibernate state.<br>
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Unfortunately, I haven't had more time to fully test it, and will be needing to get it ready to be sold. <br>
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Thanks for all the good work guys.<br>
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Lakin<br>
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