Lately I have been able to install new versions of Spherical Cow
using pxeboot with the liveos squashfs. Installing over a
gigabit Ethernet is orders of magnitude faster than burning
a DVD-RW and watching it grinding away "forever" during
the install.
Today I installed "xfce", dev libs, and dev tools. attempts to
install a more useful set failed with broken resolution.
The root password dialog is missing one or more error messages.
I have to assume what the issue is and fake it. Not luser friendly.
I still see no sign of ability to do custom disk partitioning.
The firstboot date dialog cannot set network time, claiming
it can't write ntp.conf. When I run admin/date to turn on
network time it fails, complaining it can't contact any time servers.
Spherical Cow is one sick puppy right now.
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