On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:10:20 +0100 KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> 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. Perhaps reframing it would make a difference. Perhaps renaming the second program "Install Software" (install_software), and having it boot into install_software, would satisfy all but the most windows-phobic that the sum of the two programs are "the installation." Adn the first time you run install_software and click OK, it deletes a flag file the first installer (the one that boots from DVD or Thumb) put there. Now that I understand what's involved. I don't at all begrudge Windows for booting in the middle of an install. [snip] > > > > 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. Not the same thing. I want the discoverability of a menu when I define all aspects. Perhaps the best of both worlds could be obtained by having a Curses or GUI program providing questions to create the preseed. Now THAT would be cool! SteveT Steve Litt December 2018 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
