Bill Sommerfeld's Weblog

Thursday November 01, 2007

Looking good, save for the name.

Ran into a few bugs installing the Indiana prototype.  

1) the installer got confused when I attempted to add the user "sommerfeld".  (a 8-character username limit is a figment of useradd's imagination).    I had to reboot and try again. 

 2) the lack of the nvidia binary driver in the distribution meant that it didn't cope with a 1920x1200 display.

but otherwise it installed with a zfs root in almost no time flat from CD (system refused to boot from a USB key).

It still needs a name change, though..