(another) Sounder 8 install report

[Cef]

OK, first off, I'm a curious bugger, so expect me to find all the little 
things that need changing.

At the boot prompt:
 F2 & F8 points people at the Installation Manual and the FAQ on the Debian 
web site. We need Ubuntu versions of these documents, and this stuff updated.
 F9 attributes the Debian project (and implies it is in fact a Debian 
install), but doesn't attribute or list any info for Ubuntu at all. Even a 
placeholder is better than leaving it as is, otherwise it'll be missed.
 F10 only lists copyrights and warranties for Debian, and nothing at all 
regarding Ubuntu. Same applies as per F9.

All seamlessly fine and then we reboot and head on to stage 2.

Some error during boot referring to /dev/hdc.

The PCMCIA service fails, but that's ok. Prints the [fail] with 'fail' in red. 
If that's the case, why doesn't the 'ok' print in some positive colour (eg: 
cyan or green)?

The after install unpack installed 1241 MB of files. I'm guessing that it 
decided that since I have an 80 GB drive I can afford to install all this 
stuff, which I notice includes gcc/make/etc. This is a LOT more than what the 
installation requirements available at the boot prompt suggest (which says 
256 MB of disk).

All installed and gdm comes up. Logged in, and it all seems fine, except that 
the virtual desktop is 1280x1024, and the real desktop is 1024x768. I didn't 
even notice at first it 
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virtual, simply because I thought the background image wasn't working 
properly.

Other than that, it seems ok so far. More later.

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net