[ Thanks to Ken Guest
for this link. ]
“The cdrom drive spins up and a text screen offers a black
and white ascii graphic and a blurb on LILO options. It times out
quick and boots into a GUI Linux boot process. After the
kernel finishes booting you’re allowed to pick a language.
Obviously I’m one of those english speaking types, so I left it
alone and clicked next. The mouse selection screen was interesting.
It was here I learned that the install (which seems to use KDE) can
be navigated entirely by keyboard. I selected a wheeled 3 button
intellimouse since that’s what I have physically. But VMWare
doesn’t translate that and the mouse had a very affinity for the
right corner after that – your selection here takes immediate
effect! But by using the keyboard that can quickly be
adjusted.”
“The keyboard screen follows a similar paradigm, and just like
the mouse screen let’s you test your selection. Selecting a mouse
wrong leads to pretty dramatic results but selecting a keyboard
incorrectly is a little less disasterous. Nevertheless I like this
ability to confirm your selection. It is rather amazing just how
many types of keyboards and mice there are in the world.”
“Then we come to the dreaded video card and monitor screens. I
haven’t tried Caldera on a real machine yet, but it failed to
detect whatever card VMWare conjours up. The screen shots are a
good demo of what a failed detection brings up. I suspect an a card
the installer recognizes, this screen will look far simpler. It’s
still far better the presenting a new user with vi and
/etc/X11/XF86Config! Of course manly men will probably miss it, but
the file’s still there to be edited with emacs, vi, or cat.”