Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 + g4sra via Dng wrote: > Media partitioning, formatting > Configure mountpoints > Install Bootloader > Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware > Install Shell & package management software > Configure console > Configure network > Boot > > Discuss... Above all else,

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-15 Thread golinux
On 2018-12-15 19:19, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 + g4sra via Dng wrote: Media partitioning, formatting Configure mountpoints Install Bootloader Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware Install Shell & package management software Configure console Configure network Boot

Re: [DNG] Drive-by critique

2018-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:43:38 -0800 Bruce Perens wrote: > Eric has never been the developer of a distribution, so there will be > things he doesn't understand. I am all for having as many users as > possible. I understand the problem of proprietary firmware and hope > that this is not a

Re: [DNG] Drive-by critique

2018-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:22:59 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > - netinst exist because it's the preferred way of installing minimal > systems and servers; And also because on tricky installations, life is easier if you can get the computer to boot a simple OS, and then build it up with various apt-get

Re: [DNG] A concrete proposal [was: Re: Drive-by critique]

2018-12-15 Thread golinux
On 2018-12-15 19:13, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:37:36 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: it would be probably good to have a simple webpage for Devuan newcomers that asks a couple of questions about the user intentions/use-case and suggests the most appropriate install image to use

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-15 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > You know what would really be fun? An installer that asks *all* of the > necessary questions right at the front, so you can walk away and do > something else while it installs itself. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed As the page

Re: [DNG] A concrete proposal [was: Re: Drive-by critique]

2018-12-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:37:36 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > it would be probably good to have a simple webpage for Devuan > newcomers that asks a couple of questions about the user > intentions/use-case and suggests the most appropriate install image > to use among the available ones. Nice!

Re: [DNG] What should be the tasks of the Devuan Installer

2018-12-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:29:21 -0800, Rick wrote in message <20181216012921.ga24...@linuxmafia.com>: > Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > > > You know what would really be fun? An installer that asks *all* of > > the necessary questions right at the front, so you can walk away > >

Re: [DNG] A concrete proposal [was: Re: Drive-by critique]

2018-12-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 20:13:10 -0500, Steve wrote in message <20181215201310.70ecd...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:37:36 +0100 > KatolaZ wrote: > > > > it would be probably good to have a simple webpage for Devuan > > newcomers that asks a couple of questions about the user

Re: [DNG] mailing list software

2018-12-15 Thread Jim Jackson
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Jim Jackson (j...@franjam.org.uk): > > > Just an aside - what are the alternatives to procmail? > > so far I've only found _maildrop_ as an in-line delivery filter. > > Most-often mentioned alternative LDAs (local delivery agents) are >