On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:34:58PM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:22 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08:47AM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: > > > What if the Server team maintained the 2nd stage? Then we'd be making > > > life easier for you, right? ;) > > > > Er. :-) > > > > (In seriousness, any good-quality second stage would require some level > > of cooperation from the first stage. We tried that and it was awful.) > > So I see the 1st stage as just installing the minimal server, then we > boot to a login prompt...user logs in and can either do his/her business > as desired or launch the 2nd stage (which they are told about in a 1st > boot motd-type message).
The problem is that doing task selection in the second stage, for a CD installer, requires keeping copies of a bunch of packages because it's quite plausible that the user ejected the CD. The code necessary for this was horrific, and I think the problems with it are fundamental. It's really much better to do the whole installation in one go, IMO. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
