Those first couple of screenshots showed the ugliness of our current installer (esp. the grub screen, and the keyboard/graphics device selector) w/r/t Fedora. I believe Caiman is addressing the last two. But it sounds like we could throw in a pretty grub background with zero effort in the current installers to give a little "coolness" to the very first DVD/media boot screens.
-jhf- Brian Gupta wrote: > On 6/28/07, *Dirk Wetter* <spam at drwetter.org <mailto:spam at > drwetter.org>> > wrote: > > > Brian, > > it's a somewhat shallow report restricted on the usabilty errr.. > description of the installers. It doesn't even address show the > installer > copes with certain situations (e.g. going back and forth) or even > already > installed systems. NOt to be speak of password quality, enforcements > of it. And so on and so forth... > > > Please try to keep in mind, that I did not write this article. I just > brought it to people's attention because a) it is a walkthrough/howto, > (sorta) and b) the writer is not an experienced solaris admin, c) this > writer seems to me to represent the median target audience for Indiana > and d) he does have some valid points. > > In particular: > 1) Moving language selection to the beginning of the install makes > sense. (Especially if the installer is language aware.) > 2) Moving the partitioning earlier in the install process, with a > freespace checker does save time, in the event that a user miscalculates > free space, or does not have access to the drives. (Crashed/bad cable/etc) > 3) Modern installers do more than just list total progress. It would be > nice to know where in the process the user is, and how much is left in > that package. (For GUI installs) (Personally I think this is the best of > the nice to haves he mentions.) > > Overall the reviewer gave it a good review... (Stating that while > unfamiliar all Linux users *should* be able to handle an install. > > --brian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
