d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

2011-09-02 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Recently I had the chance to install openSUSE 10.3 (2007) in a virtual machine. Instead of many dedicated menus in a chain Suse presents one big screen giving an overview over the most important installation options and their current settings (e.g. location, partitioning, which

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Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

2011-09-02 Thread Don Wright
Harald Dunkel wrote: Recently I had the chance to install openSUSE 10.3 (2007) in a virtual machine. Instead of many dedicated menus in a chain Suse presents one big screen giving an overview over the most important installation options and their current settings (e.g. location, partitioning,

Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

2011-09-02 Thread Harald Dunkel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Don, On 09/02/11 18:49, Don Wright wrote: Harald Dunkel wrote: Recently I had the chance to install openSUSE 10.3 (2007) in a virtual machine. Instead of many dedicated menus in a chain Suse presents one big screen giving an overview over

Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

2011-09-02 Thread Don Wright
Harald Dunkel wrote: I did not mean to start a flame war, but to suggest to give openSUSE's installer a try, just to see how it works. Maybe some ideas (like the big configuration window instead of asking for [OK] or [BACK] on every screen) can be useful for Debian, too. I understand that, and

Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

2011-09-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Don Wright wrote: I understand that, and did not take it as flaming. I even share a preference for 'parallel' setup screens as opposed to 'serial' questions, but understand some of the constraints of D-I make this more difficult, such as the limited

Re: d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer

2011-09-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Harald Dunkel (ha...@afaics.de): That was really exciting. No click-next-to-continue orgy just to accept the defaults. Within 2 minutes the basic configuration was done, even though the installer was new to me. The main reason I thik this is something completely impossible to apply