On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 +0000 > g4sra via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > Configure mountpoints > > Install Bootloader > > Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware > > Install Shell & package management software > > Configure console > > Configure network > > Boot > > > > Discuss... > > Above all else, query the user for his/her preferences, and coach the > user while making such decisions. Such decisions serve as input to your > list, which seems quite complete to me.
I would be quite happy to write from scratch an installer that does *exactly what is reported in that list* and nothing more. I mean, something that just *installs the base system and a boot loader and reboots you to the login prompt*. However, I am pretty sure that 99.9% of the Devuaners would probably find the result quite uncomfortable, inconvenient, skinny, and overly archaic. The main reason being that they (we) are used to perform part of the system configuration *at install time*, and we just don't realise how many other different things are done by d-i under the hood. I am not debating on whether this is good or bad (I personally found d-i a great leap forward, when it was first made available in Sarge). I am just saying that no installer in any major distro since Anaconda has done just that. Perhaps the only remaining one is the Void installer, which I am again pretty sure 95% of the readers here will consider "antiquate". Be careful of what you wish: your wishes could become true... :) > > You know what would really be fun? An installer that asks *all* of the > necessary questions right at the front, so you can walk away and do > something else while it installs itself. I find installers that keep > asking me questions every 10 minutes annoying. > You can use preseeding for that. And you are not asked any question at all. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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