On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 07:12:54AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Some more port closing questions > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:17:10 +1000
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:09:28AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It seems like you could just have a mode w/o many/any questions and a > > > mode that asks all the questions that are available -- i.e. Beginners > > > can have a beginner's mode of installation, and non-beginners can have > > > a non-beginner installation mode...no? > > You mean like maybe assigning different questions different priorities, > > and letting the user choose the priority which a question needs to have > > before it is asked, with some default assumed otherwise? > No. Nice description of what exists currently (-; > I just mean something you choose at the beginning of the installation > process to circumvent the entire question asking process -- I'm not > asking for this -- perhaps I should learn not to respond to comments > in posts w/ "<G>"s in them... I dunno if that could work, since there'd be questions you _need_ answers for... To my mind, the priorities system _should_ be able to handle this, if everyone's priorities are correct. On the other hand, maybe support for a scripted install (get answers from NFS mounted file <IP>.debanswer or something...). I mean, _that_ is something MS Windows was doing quite well 7 years ago. The OEM Win95 install process was: Put NE2K card jumpered to 300/10 into computer. Put bookdisk into computer. Boot. <Wait 30 minutes or however long it took> Remove bookdisk and NIC (unless customer purchased a NIC) Put in box, hand to customer. When the customer takes it home, Win95 goes "What's your Name?" "What's your CD-Key?" "Welcome to Windows" If you mean something like that (Probably not that last 'End User Experience' bit) then it _is_ something Debian's lacking. And it would certainly help take Debian into the consumer world, especially now that we've gotten Woody out the door. Although I still think that such a thing should be achievable with the priorities. > > Excellent idea. I can't see how we could get this far without such a > > system. ;-) > Nice sarcasm (-; (It was sarcasm in a nice way. I didn't think you'd not noticed the existence of the question priorities. I just thought it sounded similar enough to be amusing) PS. I suspect this isn't really a -security discussion anymore. But I also suspect it's not really going to go much further after this anyway. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 5th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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