Re: debian-installer demo system, take 2
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:20:21PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Here is another debian-installer demo system. It still needs a real
> debian system and doesn't chroot, nor does it even use cdebconf although
> it probably could. But it is rather more impressive than the last one:
>
> joey@gumdrop:~/tmp/demo>du -s
> 73k .
>
> [ Well that's not too bad. Of course it lacks the big 4: kernel, libc,
> busybox, cdebconf. BTW, it compresses down to 19k.. ]
Very nice!
> The goal is to find a mirror that is close to you on the network -- be aware
> that near countries, or even your own, may not be the best choice.
>
> a. Australia 2. France 8. Norway
> o. Austria g. Germany p. Poland
> b. Belgium 3. Greece 9. Portugal
> q. Brazil h. Hong Kong r. Russia
> v. Britain (UK) 4. Hungary s. Slovakia
> w. Bulgaria i. Indonesia 10. Slovenia
> c. Canada 5. Ireland 11. South Africa
> x. China 6. Italy 12. Spain
> y. Costa Rica j. Japan 13. Sweden
> z. Croatia k. Korea (South) 14. Switzerland
> 1. Czech Republic l. Latvia t. Taiwan
> d. Denmark m. Mexico 15. Turkey
> e. Estonia n. Netherlands u. United States
> f. Finland 7. New Zealand 16. enter information manually
>
> Use a mirror from what country? u
I understand the general logic behind this, but I've got two big user
interface objections. For one, I wish there was a way to not present
such a hideously big menu at the beginning, even if it is very simple;
not much we can do about that, though. More importantly, the
cleverness of selecting the abbreviations will really fry us later, I
think. Could we go back to just numbering the options? Seeing
"a, b, b, q, v, w, c, x, y, z, 1" as consecutive options just rings
badly.
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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