I disagree with you. My belief is that in this day of
cheap hard drives (refer to pricewatch.com) that the
best course to is simply install everything if the
hdba is native linux with more than 10 Gigabits free.
The only time you should ask for options is if A) the
hard drive is too small or B) the user selects a min
install.
--- Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "j" == joabb2 <JoAnne> writes:
>
> E> Installation: I chose "Expert" and "Custom
> system", for better
> E> control over selection of software packages.
>
> j> Practically everyone will pick expert. (once)
>
> That's ironic: I'm _supposed_ to _be_ an expert
> (almost 9 yrs on
> Linux!) and yet, I almost always choose Automatic
> because it is easier
> and faster to undo its overzealousness by hand than
> fight with those
> tedious tree-menus!
>
> Maybe we should switch the prompts ;)
>
> I remember once, 6 or 7 years ago, sitting in a high
> level meeting at
> Bell Canada (large telco) where the new "Internet
> Group" was being
> introduced to some senior execs. An exec asked us
> "Who here would
> call themselves an Web 'guru'?" and _all_ of us
> senior people, most of
> whom had 5 or more years Internet experience,
> mumbled out loud that
> _nobody_ *really* knows anything about how people
> will use the
> Internet, wereas all the fresh young
> learn-webdesign-in-a-semester
> graduates immediately pronounced themselves Gurus.
>
> Seriously, though, we _should_ do something about
> the number of
> packages we make people select. We need more
> degrees of 'install
> types' than Office/Games/Dev/Server. Maybe some
> sort of install
> wizard that asks you how much you know and what you
> need, or perhaps
> install some means to track the software you use so
> you can see how
> many of the packages we've installed are just
> wasting space. My guess
> is a large percent of the typical install is never
> actually executed
> even on an 'experts' machine, although the packages
> in that percent
> are different for everyone.
>
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