On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 02:13:50AM -0400, Rick_Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:02, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > On Friday 09 April 2004 21:49, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > This is OldWorld PowerMac. > > > > > > Booting off of floppy uses the miboot bootloader. It's not like lilo or > > > grub on i386. There's no point in the process where you get to enter > > > that kind of stuff. > > > > > That means you'd probably like one of the first questions the installer asks > > to be "At which level would you like to install: normal, medium, expert". > > Or something like that. > > (There have been several discussions on the list about the best naming of the > > different levels.) > > > > Personally I wouldn't mind a question like that for i386, but it looks like it > > is necessary for your platform. > > Yes. I'd say that something like that is necessary for full > functionality on OldWorld Macs. > > Actually, I'd go much farther than that. Here's part of my wish-list > for my dream installer someday: > > I'd like to be able -- easily, simply, and transparently -- to navigate > up and down the detail hierarchy at will. > > For example, here's one possible way to do what I'd like. There are a > whole universe of other ways, many probably much better than this one. > This is just the first one that came to my mind. > > At any point in the process, the user should be able to hit "escape" (or > some other key -- "escape" just has the advantage that it's mnemonic for > "stepping out of line") and immediately switch to the next more detailed > level of configuration questions. Some other key (maybe "alt-escape"?) > should do the opposite -- shift to the next less detailed level.
Well, i was thinking of an escape key, which would pop up a priority selecting dialog, with maybe some additional stuff (fill an online bug report, abort the install and reboot, ...) Proper checkpoints are apparently needed to show places were aborting a task is possible without messing everything up. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
