On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:54:14 -0700 Glenn Lagasse <Glenn.Lagasse at Sun.COM>
wrote:
> * Mike Meyer (mwm at mired.org) wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:02:24 PDT Wilson Hernandez <slackbare at
> > unixserve.org> wrote:
> > I don't think you can do it in the 2008.05 distro - it's installer is
> > less flexible than Windows. 2008.11 I haven't looked at.
> And personally I wouldn't call the GUI installer in 2008.05 'less
> flexible than Windows'. If anything it's more inline with the Windows
> install experience than the previous incarnation of the installer for
> Solaris/OpenSolaris which asked you all kinds of baroque questions that
> most users had no hope of answering correctly.
Windows installers (at least through XP SP2, I have as yet to
experience Vista) have a customize option that 2008.05 doesn't - which
makes them the more flexible of the two. That option causes those
installers to ask all those "baroque questions" that people who know
what they are doing use to get a distribution that does what they want
instead of what the developer wants. Of course, that's pretty much the
last time Windows doesn't treat the user like a complete idiot. That
may be the last time that 2008.05 does treat the user like a complete
idiot, but I couldn't stand the only available install config long
enough to find out.
<mike
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