Re: d-i: status and where to go from here

[Geert Stappers <stappers@casema.net>]

At 16:24 -0800 2/16/01, Joey Hess wrote:
>Today I built a floppy image, and after fighting with crummy floppy
>disks for an hour, got a good one and booted it.
>
>Network card config went fine, dns worked fine.

snap

>* The system needs a great deal of polish. There are little things in
>  cdebconf like the way it doesn't tell what menu item is default, and
>  of course a slang or curses frontend would be flashier, but I'm really
>  talking more about polishing the flow from one bit to another, and the
>  gestalt. For example, when you boot up right now, you see a main menu
>  like this:
>
>    1. Finish setting up the Debian installer
>    2. Manually configure network hardware
>    3. Configure a static network
>    4. Configure network hardware
>
>  That is, well, a little confusing. It would be better to see:
>
>    1. Configure network hardware
>    2. Set up the network
>    3. Download the rest of the Debian installer

   1. Setup the network hardware
   2. Configure the network ( IP-address )
   3. Download the rest of the Debian installer

>
>  Where picking 1 would give you a choice of manal or automatic hardware
>  configuration, and picking 2 would give a choice between manual net
>  config or dhcp.


ad 1.) Setup the network hardware
  It uses stuff as 'insmod'

ad 2.) Configure the network ( IP-address )
  It uses 'ifconfig'



Groet Geert Stappers
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