----- Original Message -----
From: "Guillaume Cottenceau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] [discuss] Add a quick-expert install mode
> "NEPOTE Charles (Neuilly Gestion)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [Dream]
> > With the "quick-expert mode" it should be possible to select manually in a
> > single screen, without automatic detections, *all* the options at the very
> > beginning of install (language, hardware, networks options, and so on). Then
> > the rest of the install would be without human intervention until the end.
> > (May be there will have problems with hard drive partition... we must think
> > carefully about it).
>
> We could add a GUI, you're right, but your proposition makes me thinking
> of the auto_install option, which just does the thing you're asking for.
> [you edit a text file which contains all the options for an automatic
> install as a Perl hash]
>
This could be a component of a corporate desktop focus, a place I see as the next
frontier for Linux.
I recently wrote a review of PowerQuest's Drive Image Pro (MaximumLinux July/August
issue- with a Linux perspective) since it is MS only, it didn't do too well. But what
a great tool this would be in a corporate environment if it worked for Linux. Then if
there were easy and organized admin tools to work on the clients and even an
X-workstation install option . . .
There's some $$$ there.
Hoyt
