Hi list, On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 01:17:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > In Debian, using netinst, we have . . > and that's it. > > That's a bit more items, but not by so much. No, that's a lot more than other installers. IMO our installer is not for beginners, it's for advanced users and for experts we have much more questions. d-i lacks a beginners mode with only the minimal questions. All questions were we normally just hit return can be omitted, if it's still possible to switch to a "show-me-more-questions"-mode.
For e.g. several questions for the partitioning and selecting a device for the boot loader is nothing a beginner could answer, because he's missing the know how about device names, grub, LVM and so on and that's why they just hit return. > - bootloader installation (we really can not avoid this step, it poses > too many problems). Why can't we avoid this question? I wonder because other distributions do not ask it. A CentOS 7 installation just asks me the language, which disk to use, a password for root a user name and password. Nothing more. But I still can have a different timezone or keyboard beside the good defaults they set. P.S.: I'm currently working on a simple way to create customized installation images, and I like to present the results on the MiniDebConf in Cambridge next week. I will also post some news here then. -- regards Thomas
