Re: 3 days until end of test period
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 08:07, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 09:11, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > The only difficulty I had is that it tried to install quik and failed
> > because I didn't create any boot partition -- because I prefer to use
> > MacOS-9 with BootX as my boot loader. So for me, quik is unnecessary
> > and undesirable. I wish there were a more graceful way of telling the
> > installer that I don't want quik, but allowing it to try and fail does
> > the job, albeit messily. It's certainly not worth holding up the
> > release over.
>
> The floppies install with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=expert, whereas the CDs use
> DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low. At expert-level (or even at medium) you're asked
> whether you want to install quik or not. IMHO the sensible default answer is
> yes, because allmost all oldworld machines can boot from quik.
>
> But maybe the priority should of that question should be lowered ? Or better:
> if some hfs partitions are found (which are mandatory for bootx, right?), the
> question wether quik should be installed, should be asked. If there are no
> hfs-Partitions it's a safe bet to install quik (on oldworld).
>
> A word to quik: on some models (i only know the 7200 for sure) quik installed
> by d-i works "out-of-the-box". your beige g3 and my 4400 belong to those
> models who suffer from certain known problems regarding open firmware and
> quik. The problems on the 4400 are software fixable from within linux (see
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/04/msg01130.html) , which is afaik
> not true for the beige g3.
>
>
> regards,
> Holger
I've hashed over my reasons for preferring BootX to quik many times in
this forum, so I won't re-hash them again.
Your suggestion of making the priority of the "do you want to install
quik?" question depend on whether you have an HFS partition is a good
one, I think. But probably for "after sarge" time-frame.
Enjoy!
Rick
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