Glenn Lagasse wrote: Glenn,
good explanation and as long as there is always the old installer for those who need to customize the installation at a deeper level that's fine. regards Bernd > * Vasiliy (vassun at gmail.com) wrote: > >> As a developer with more then 20 years experience I can assure you >> that I need an option to lay out my own filesystems. >> > > And as I said in my original email, customization at a deeper level than > is currently available is planned for future versions. That said, we > are trying to make the installation as painless as possible. Have a > look at other Operating System installations such as Mac OS/X, Ubuntu > Linux, Fedora Core and you'll get an idea of what we are trying to > achieve. We want to make the simple things simple. > > For instance, I've used various versions of Ubuntu since their > inception. I don't use their desktop cd install because it's too simple > for *my* needs as an *experienced* user (disk layout being one of them). > They do however provide a server cd install which allows me to tweak > more knobs and so that is what I use. However, for people that are new > to Ubuntu and want to download and get up and running with a minimal > amount of fuss, the desktop cd with the simplified installer is just the > ticket. Once they have it installed for awhile and learn how it works > they can go back and perform more custom installs using the other > installation options should they so desire. This is what we are > striving for. We want to attract the users that *don't* have years of > experience administering Solaris. We want to get them up, running and > being productive with as few barriers as possible. And grow the > OpenSolaris (and by extension Solaris) userbase. The new installer is a > step in that direction. > > -- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar . Fidel Castro
