On 29/08/2007, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > If the Debian Etch installer is any indication about Ubuntu's then I'm > > pretty sure it's possible through the GUI installer. > > Debian's installer looks like it's just a GUI frontend to the text-based > installer. Exactly the same, just drawing with GTK+ widgets instead of > ncurses. So, you'd get the same options.
Now that you mention it, you reminded me that the way Debian's installer was designed was to separate the front-end from the "essence" of what questions to ask and how to handle the answers, so by definition the textual, graphical, or whatever other user interface there is can concentrate on the presentation and not worry about the data (maybe a bit like the vanilla kernel's configuration system). That's partly why it took them so long to bring it out (but then, as is the Debian way, they set a totally new bar for installation :) But Ubuntu's works by uncompressing a squashfs image to the hard drive > (I don't think it's a frontend to the text-based installer), rather than > installing packages one-by-one the text-based and Debian way. It > contains far fewer options , and I don't recall seeing any sort of RAID > options in Ubuntu's graphical installer. > That's interesting to know, I just remembered an impression that Ubuntu's installer is just Debian's with maybe some Ubuntu-specific tweaks. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
