On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 11:10:20 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 +0000 > > g4sra via Dng <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > > Configure mountpoints > > > Install Bootloader > > > Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware > > > Install Shell & package management software > > > Configure console > > > Configure network > > > Boot > > > > > > Discuss... > > > > Above all else, query the user for his/her preferences, and coach > > the user while making such decisions. Such decisions serve as input > > to your list, which seems quite complete to me. > > I would be quite happy to write from scratch an installer that does > *exactly what is reported in that list* and nothing more. I mean, > something that just *installs the base system and a boot loader and ...a ssh server and then... > reboots you to the login prompt*. ...would be perfect. ..maybe have the installer fire up a ssh server if we tell it to with e.g. " --ssh --ssh-keys-from-boot-server"? I find ssh is handy while installing, even on the few boxes I set up without ssh servers years ago. > However, I am pretty sure that 99.9% of the Devuaners would probably > find the result quite uncomfortable, inconvenient, skinny, and overly > archaic. The main reason being that they (we) are used to perform part > of the system configuration *at install time*, and we just don't > realise how many other different things are done by d-i under the > hood. > > I am not debating on whether this is good or bad (I personally found > d-i a great leap forward, when it was first made available in Sarge). > I am just saying that no installer in any major distro since Anaconda > has done just that. Perhaps the only remaining one is the Void > installer, which I am again pretty sure 95% of the readers here will > consider "antiquate". > > Be careful of what you wish: your wishes could become true... :) > > > > > You know what would really be fun? An installer that asks *all* of > > the necessary questions right at the front, so you can walk away > > and do something else while it installs itself. I find installers > > that keep asking me questions every 10 minutes annoying. > > > > You can use preseeding for that. And you are not asked any question at > all. > > HND > > KatolaZ > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
