I was waiting for someone who has been here a bit longer than I to say something like this.
I am swamped at work right now but I am taking 5 days off. I have mirrored hardhats, Kevin's Config stuff from his IP and kdtop websites onto my laptop. I plan on scratching out basic configuration steps as outlined in Hardhats and I hope to ask for clarification and order on some of the steps. I like the idea of an installation script that prompts the user for essential information, and takes care of the gory details under the covers. I plan to give the Kevin's configuraiton script another go now that I have 3 servers to play with. On Tuesday 29 March 2005 10:58, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > With the recent interest on this board of several > newcomers in getting VistA, I am again brought to the > point that WE REALLY NEED TO GET THE INSTALL PROCESS > EASIER. > > Sorry about the shouting, but we have some > knowledgable people on this board, and it seems that > nothing is really being done to solve this problem. > > Unless we can significantly make this easier, only the > very brave and persistent will get it working. > > It seems to me, that during the low-level installation > process, that the only thing a new user really needs > to change is the machine name. Why can't we make sit > down at the next conference and complete a basic > config on a system. We could use generic names for > installation institution etc etc. Then use this to > create our CD-ROM/DVD that is distributed. Then write > a short program that would change the stored name of > the linux box to match the current user's system. > > This would get a user up and running. Then, using the > menu system, they could go back and edit institution > names, add new users, etc, etc. But it would be a > WORKING system early on. > > I would really like to make significant progress on > this by the end of the Boston conference. > > Let me slightly change topics here for a minute. > Bhaskar once made a point to me, that I would like to > consider here. (I'll add my thoughts here too.) We > have "demos" which show interested people what the > system can do, and then there are full installs. If a > user is going to use a system in their office, they > either need to pay someone knowledgeable to install & > support their system, or they need to become > knowledgeable themselves. I.e. if we make the system > extremely easy to install, and it can get itself up in > the air automatically, then suddenly we will have > people flying an airplane, so to speak, that they > really don't know how to control. And they will > likely crash. I know that I have my system essentially > configured, but it is very helpful that I have learned > how to fix problems with fileman etc. > > I think I will still come down on the side of wanting > an install wizard that does all the hard configuration > work, but I'd be interested in other's feedback. > > Kevin > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members -- Mark Street, RHCE http://www.oswizards.com -- Key fingerprint = 3949 39E4 6317 7C3C 023E 2B1F 6FB3 06E7 D109 56C0 GPG key http://www.oswizards.com/pubkey.asc ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
