Re: [debian-installer] Some questions
Le Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:15:00PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > But launching an external program would break the nice encapsulation of the
> > UI. Was that already discussed ?
>
> Yes, this is a problem of course. Debconf may come in handy for feeding
> in pre-determined partition setups, and it could be used to ask every
> question needed to partition a disk, but it would be quite clunky. The
> simplicity of the UI you can create with debconf is both a weakness and
> a strength.
Yes, we'll have to live with that. But we really need to add at least
a progressbar to cdebconf ...
> > autodetection of hardware, this will also have to fit in that boot image
> > (at least to autodetect the medium that will be used to retrieve the rest
> > of the install), no ?
>
> Yes, there's really no other way it can be done. Oh, it's possible to
> have a two stage process, where a simple to set up retriver (like one
> that grabs files from floppies) is used to download what's needed to use
> a more complex retreiver.
For my CDROM install there isn't that many stages for the "retrieval",
however there is two stage in the installer since there's what is on the
boot image and what is copied from the CD once I detected it. That's how
it was planned anyway.
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