CapnKirby: Ark Linux 2005.2-RC3 [Review]

“Installing Ark is almost too easy, particularly when selecting
‘System Install.’ In this mode, you simply select your language and
location, click System Install, and play Tetris until you are told
that the installation is done. Now of course, nothing is completely
this easy, if you chose this method, any and all of your drives
will be used for Ark, and there is no choice about it. There is an
‘Expert Mode’ available which gives you Qparted to select and
manipulate your partitions to your liking. However, there is a bug
in the Expert Install that creates frame buffer errors with some
graphics cards (mostly Nvidia’s and I810’s from what I found in the
forums) and the install cannot get past the Qparted screens. The
solution for me was to remove my primary drive and let it take over
my secondary drive which is where all my testing Distros go
anyway.

“One oddity with the install process, when it is done, it asks
you to remove the CD and power and hit the reset button on your pc,
no reboot sequence. Now, while I expect that the installer simply
un-mounts the drives when it is done, this is a rather
disconcerting suggestion in my mind. However, it does work…”

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