On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 01:28:43PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 07:08:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > 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... > > [cut] > > > > > I'm not sure how minimal your preinstall would be, but what I've found > > difficult in the old days was finding the right device drivers, > > figuring out which packages to install to get them, enough network > > configuration to be able to download them, and, in the *really* old > > days, guessing the monitor geometry I need to get X to work. > > > > It was annoying to have to have to figure these thing out after install > > time whem the installer had already found answers that worked for it. > > > > :D > > You see: in just two emails we have come from a *minimal* base > installation (a shell with a kernel, a bootloader, and a working > dpkg/apt) to a fully-functioning network server (an ssh server with > configurable keys!) and a working X config. Another three emails and > we get requests for automatic partitioning, automagic disk encryption, > remote shell during install, choice between different mirror > configurations, localisation, choice of meta-packages for typical > use-cases and..... > > ...and we end up with something of the same complexity of the current > debian-installer. > > We keep saying we crave for minimalism. But the same concept of > *minimalism* has become quite bloated in the last 20 years :)
Most of the things I want are already there in the installer itself. Which means, if I could just install the installer ... And X seems to be able to figure out the monitor timings itself nowadays. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
