On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 11:00:15PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> But this introduces a single point of failure -- you have to be able to
> connect to ftp.debian.org
IMHO ftp.debian.org shouldn't be a SPOF, but that's another matter
entirely...
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8)'s code to find the remote site with the best bandwidth).
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st?
Microsoft's Registry is just a bunch of key-value pairs that could be
stored in any database type, really. The problem is that some
software is just not amenable to key-value configuration files. Take
rsync in daemon mode, for example (man rsync); or Sendmail; these are
just two ex
an
absolutely perfect configuration tool in every single package.
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exibility. You can group several questions
> together in a block, which can all be presented to the user on a single
> webpage. The block is set by the package, and is transparent to the UI
> being used (I think the GTK frontend also used to use it).
Sounds like what you really want is XML,
Let's add one more bullet point for the new installer--namely,
alternative root filesystem support. I and my colleagues would just
love to see ReiserFS support in woody's installer.
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her than text.
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Joey, so that we might get started with coding and documenting, could
you please give us new volunteers a required reading (and
understanding) list so that we can get ourselves up to speed with past
and current work?
Cheers, and thanks,
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we using?
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"From th
mething like "Installer-Follows: module
[,module, ...]" (e.g. the menus that must precede this one) and have
the installer figure out which order in which they're supposed to be
presented.
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ssible to create
> one or more profile without actually installing any machine. Ideally this
> should be possible from the bootdisk or on an already installed system.
> The config browser should be able to load and save profile files like
> any normal application does.
Seconded.
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anyone doing a mass install this way though; the cost
per installation would be too high compared to setting up DHCP and
FTP/NFS servers if you're going to do multiple cloned installations.
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achine's DNS domain
name). Instead, it would be nice if the installer paused to collect
the information, and then resumed with the unattended installation.
I'd say that's second priority to getting an unattended installation
working, however.
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n running it
> automatically from the boot disk and possibly erasing by mistake a previous
> installation.
You won't get any arguments from me re: flexibility. I just want to
make sure that complete non-interactivity is an option, not
necessarily at the expense of other options.
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or PXE boot set that
could be used to perform a non-interactive installation with a known
set of (perhaps customized) packages on a known set of hardware.
I'm drooling already,
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be
menu-driven, because we need to have complete non-interactivity from
power-on to production mode. It makes little sense to have one
required keypress when you can get away with having none.
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quired features, thats the
> whole point of modularisation isnt it ?
Perhaps a specialized "express disk" is in order here.
(Yes, Glenn, I think maximum flexibility is always a noble goal.)
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:23:16PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> If the choice is between one floppy with minimal detection and two floppies
> with detection of everything, I want one floppy, every day.
I'm with Joey on that.
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" for me? Is this a default
value supplied by the .deb--which in many cases we'll want to override
non-interactively? Or are you referring to some other "default value"?
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nteractively.
DHCP can assist the installer with determining the location of such
information.
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tty
darned well what's in them and that's not going to change for awhile.
In the case of mass installation it's probably better that it just be
manually specified and not risk breakage due to a possibly incorrect
detection mechanism.
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