Lothar Braun wrote:
What about having two utilities for the installation process? Something
like a very small (non-gui/non-X) version of "sysinstall" that just
installs a base system and only has the functionality to
- partition/label a disk
- configure the network (if needed for installation)
- install the base system (or parts of it)
- install a boot manager
and a second utility "sysconf" that provides the other stuff like post
installation system configuration (sshd, mouse), installing packages,
etc. The second utility could have an X-based GUI without disturbing the
installation process of serial console users or people that don't like X
on their machines.
Would that be a good idea?
Why not leave "sysconf" as a curses based interface? To my mind, the
difference between X-based and curses is cosmetic. (Plus one of
"sysconf"s duties will be to install X, so it would be a bit
self-referential.)
Next, it seemed to me that the OP's main complaint was that he had to
change the CD's about 40 times when installing packages. Why not just
fix that?
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