Re: The new installer

2012-09-24 Thread Karel Volný
Hi, > What kind of impression do you think people get when, after > hearing that Fedora defines itself as bleeding edge > technology, they are presented with an installer interface > designed and written more than ten years ago? and the wheel was invented more than ten *thousand* years ago is t

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Then there is a question of prominently showing substandard > software to the public. We all know about first impressions > in social settings. In operating systems it is the installer that > makes the first impressions. Yo

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Carl G
Chuck, I don't know what you're trying to say/achieve here... 2012/9/11 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R > > On 09/11/2012 10:58 AM, David Lehman wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: >> >>> On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: >>> On Mon, 201

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 09/11/2012 10:58 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Someth

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:24 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > >> Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. > >> Something in one of the selections I mad

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread drago01
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > On 09/11/2012 10:28 AM, drago01 wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R >> wrote: >>> >>> A processor upgrade usually demands a >>> fresh install. >> >> No it doesn't. > > I have had enough

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 09/11/2012 10:28 AM, drago01 wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: A processor upgrade usually demands a fresh install. No it doesn't. I have had enough times when upgrading CPU and motherboard bricked a working system that I assume a fresh install wi

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Frank Murphy
On 11/09/12 18:24, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Then there is a question of prominently showing substandard software to the public. We all know about first impressions in social settings. In operating systems it is the installer that makes the first impressions. Chuck, it's (pre)alp

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread drago01
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > A processor upgrade usually demands a > fresh install. No it doesn't. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 09/11/2012 08:07 AM, David Lehman wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of devel

Re: The new installer

2012-09-11 Thread David Lehman
On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. > Something in one of the selections I made had a > missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies > are a part of developmental installs. > > What was most fr

Re: The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. http://imgur.com/r/funny/tSE5K > What was so wrong with the working installer that required > writing a new one from scratch? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewI

Re: The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 10 September 2012 15:07, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. > Something in one of the selections I made had a > missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies > are a part of developmental installs. > > What was most frustrati

The new installer

2012-09-10 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
Had a frustrating experience with the fat cow installer. Something in one of the selections I made had a missing dependency (or whatever). Missing dependencies are a part of developmental installs. What was most frustrating is that the installer did not indicate which selection was causing the p