Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-15 Thread Jonatan Liljedahl
Hisham Muhammad wrote: > On 3/14/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As there are some bugs regarding the installer I had the idea of doing >> some rewrite of it as well. Not from scratch, but more to make it more >> effective, giving the installation more of a "flow". As it is now I >

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-15 Thread MLA-Gobo
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:32, Jonas Karlsson wrote: > > I don't like this. If someone insists on shooting themselves in the > > foot, they should already know how to do so, without any help from the > > installer. On the topic of the user screens, I noticed that if the two > > passwords don'

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-15 Thread Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:11:43 +0900 "David Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While this doesn't detract too much from the overall install time, if you're > like me and start and install, walk away (or get distracted) and come back > only to find it sitting there asking for some little yes/no ans

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-15 Thread Jonas Karlsson
2007/3/15, MLA-Gobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 23:17, Jonas Karlsson wrote: > > My suggestion for order and features is the following: > > > > 1. Welcome/Installation language > > 2. Time zone/bios clock setting > > 3. Keyboard layout (1) > > 4. Super user > > 5. Extra user (

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-15 Thread Jonas Karlsson
2007/3/15, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/14/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As there are some bugs regarding the installer I had the idea of doing > > some rewrite of it as well. Not from scratch, but more to make it more > > effective, giving the installation more o

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-15 Thread Jonas Karlsson
2007/3/14, David Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Talking about installers, I not too long ago dug out an old copy of a what > seems to be a now defunct linux install based upon Gentoo, called epiOS. It > was made for mini ITX motherboards from VIA. They created their own custom > installation

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-14 Thread MLA-Gobo
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 23:17, Jonas Karlsson wrote: > My suggestion for order and features is the following: > > 1. Welcome/Installation language > 2. Time zone/bios clock setting > 3. Keyboard layout (1) > 4. Super user > 5. Extra user (2) > 6. General network settings (3) > 7+ Config screens

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-14 Thread Hisham Muhammad
On 3/14/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As there are some bugs regarding the installer I had the idea of doing > some rewrite of it as well. Not from scratch, but more to make it more > effective, giving the installation more of a "flow". As it is now I > don't think there's a good

Re: [gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-14 Thread David Pierce
Hi! Talking about installers, I not too long ago dug out an old copy of a what seems to be a now defunct linux install based upon Gentoo, called epiOS. It was made for mini ITX motherboards from VIA. They created their own custom installation program, and it has (what I thought anyway) the novel

[gobolinux-devel] Rewriting the Installer

2007-03-14 Thread Jonas Karlsson
As there are some bugs regarding the installer I had the idea of doing some rewrite of it as well. Not from scratch, but more to make it more effective, giving the installation more of a "flow". As it is now I don't think there's a good order at the same time as I think that some settings should be