gns wrote: > [1] Ask *all possible* questions at the earliest > possible stage instead of midway. (It is also ok if midway > interruption can be avoided by giving a command line inputs optionally). > Stopping midway to ask for boot loader installation > OR Stopping at the end of OS installation, to ask for license agreement > for some of the softwares, etc if avoided would be nice.
this could be possible if we wrote all the options to a config file and then reading from this file before the actual start of the installation. this method could also be used for an automated installation/remote installation/wateva. > [2] Have some text/graphic fields which provided > information for the > user as to what to do in any given screen. nice option. a brief 1-2 line description of each option would be a BIG advantage here... but i think we need to plan for internationalization (i18n) right from the beginning :=) > [3] The installer should not be LiveCD based - boot > using LiveCD and > then invoke the installer type. we could possibly have a boot option - boot into the live cd version or boot into the installer version. > [4] Detect other partitions and provide information > in an easy to understand form. ok > [5] Simple and fast. Go Perl!!! :=)) > The last I used ubuntu (a few months back), it did > not have a GUI > installer and this has not stopped people from > adopting it. well, there is a gui installer provided by debian but its still not as good as the text based installer. Sriram, i am willing to help a bit with the installer part of the problem. I am currently looking at your installer to code to see if i can do a manual installer (similar to gentoo)... and then automate the necessary parts. do let me know if there is any part you need help with! Regards, Ananth This message posted from opensolaris.org
