Sounder CD 7

[Mark Shuttleworth]

I just did an install on a new laptop and it went very well, thanks Colin!

>  * The installer has an optional feature to copy all the packages to
>    the hard disk before installing Base and Desktop: it's not used by
>    default yet, but please boot with
>    'anna/choose_modules=archive-copier' to try it, and send your
>    feedback. Eventually the general idea is that you won't have to use
>    the CD at all after the first reboot, but not all the integration
>    work has been done yet so you'll still have to reinsert the CD after
>    rebooting to stop base-config complaining.
>  
>
Ah, didn't know about that so didn't test it, but will try it on another 
test machine shortly.

>  * If you tell the partitioner to erase the entire disk, it'll now skip
>    the scary detail page and go straight to the summary and
>    confirmation.
>  
>
This is now looking pretty slick.

>  * The Base installation stage now tells you what it's doing throughout
>    rather than sitting with the progress bar at 68% for ages.
>  
>
Worked perfectly, and looks great.

>  * The root password is now disabled by default, and the installer
>    won't ask you to set it; instead, the initially-created user is
>    added to sudoers and you'll be allowed into single-user mode without
>    entering a password. (If you set a root password using 'sudo passwd
>    root', single-user mode will go back to asking you for a password.)
>  
>
Another big win in usability for users new to the open source world.

>  * The CD now includes a few extra packages that aren't installed by
>    default. See http://wiki.no-name-yet.com/WartyWarthog/ShipSeed for
>    the list.
>  
>
If I do the "copy on install" thing, will these automatically show up in 
my apt cache?

>  * The desktop guys have done quite a bit of work, which I confess to
>    not being familiar with. I believe they'd like testing of the trash
>    applet, which is a new feature.
>  
>
It's not installed by default. Trying to install it on the Sounder7 
install causes it to crash immediately, but it's working very well on 
another machine.

>  * Thom tells me that we now have Totally Rad Laptop Support.
>  
>
Seems to work perfectly on an IBM X40 :-)

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