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Hans Kristian Rosbach <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:04:54 +0200
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I always install servers using only a keyboard (and this time I actually 
had no
mouse available to help me out), and since I have finally gotten around 
to testing
SL7, I thought I should report my findings.
I know this might be too late for SL7 and might even be more suited for 
upstream,
but at least now the problems will be known.


During installation, in the Date&Time screen, I am unable to enable 
"Network Time"
using only the keyboard. Even the keyboard shortcut ALT+N does nothing.

An option to toggle keyboard-shortcuts on instead of having to hold it 
down all
the time to discover them would be nice. Or they could just be enabled 
by default.

When attempting to set up partitions, I discovered that it is very 
difficult to
edit the settings of a partition since when you have selected the 
partition you
want to change, an alt+tab (to attempt to arrive at the input field for 
mountpoint for
example) will change your selection to the next partition.
This can be overcome by using keyboard shortcuts to manipulate the 
individual
settings, but since they are not normally visible, it is not very 
intuitive at all.

I also had problems changing from the auto-selected BTRFS to standard 
partitioning
that I had selected from the start (dunno why it changed at all really, 
any new
partition would automatically default to BTRFS), this would fail.
However due to having no mouse, I cannot click the bar at the bottom that
states "Device configuration failed. Click for details.". No keyboard 
shortcut seems
to be available for this.

The partition selection also does not change colour when not in focus, 
leading me
to believe up/down keys will change to another partition while in 
reality focus is
for example in the 'File System' field, leading me to changing the root 
filesystem
into a huge swap device.

In the partitioning screen, ALT+D is assigned both to the [DONE] button 
and to the
'Desired Capacity' field.

Again, clicking done will lead to the bottom bar saying something is 
wrong with
my device configuration (although I can see nothing wrong), but I cannot 
check
what those errors are. (This turned out to be a missing /boot/efi 
partition.)

During installation it asks me to set a root password, this button can 
be reached
by ALT-R, but it does not actually open the root password dialog, it 
only selects it
and then requires you to press enter/space.

-HK

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