Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/22/2018 09:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I ran the installer [w/o internet connection]. The install matched the screen shots. I particularly liked the GUI for disk partitioning. Enough that I would suggest to Debian use that portion in d-i. I had some problems running the existing

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/22/2018 12:34 AM, Jonathan Carter wrote: On 21/05/2018 22:25, Richard Owlett wrote: https://desktop.aims.ac.za/getting-started/ I browsed the site. It did not attempt to answer the type of calamares questions I might have. But the description of aims was intriguing. I'll experiment with

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-22 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 21/05/2018 22:25, Richard Owlett wrote: >> https://desktop.aims.ac.za/getting-started/ > > I browsed the site. It did not attempt to answer the type of calamares > questions I might have. But the description of aims was intriguing. I'll > experiment with the live system. That page above

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/21/2018 12:23 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: Hi Richard On 21/05/2018 17:50, Richard Owlett wrote: As to Calamares, what might it look like to the end-user? [https://calamares.io/] gives no hint. Ah yes, so, here's the installation instructions for AIMS Desktop, a derivative I work on that

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Michael .
I agree with adding gparted but what does Calamares do that graphical d-i doesn't? Cheers On 22/05/2018, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Hi Richard > > On 21/05/2018 17:50, Richard Owlett wrote: >> As to Calamares, what might it look like to the end-user? >> [https://calamares.io/]

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Richard On 21/05/2018 17:50, Richard Owlett wrote: > As to Calamares, what might it look like to the end-user? > [https://calamares.io/] gives no hint. Ah yes, so, here's the installation instructions for AIMS Desktop, a derivative I work on that happens to have some nice screenshots of

Re: Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/21/2018 07:06 AM, Jonathan Carter wrote: Dear live team During this release cycle, I have worked on packaging calamares[0], an independent system installer framework that can be used from live media. The intention was to package this for derivatives, and to maintain it collectively

Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Dear live team During this release cycle, I have worked on packaging calamares[0], an independent system installer framework that can be used from live media. The intention was to package this for derivatives, and to maintain it collectively in Debian in order to avoid duplicate work.