Re: d-i first-stage configuration
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:23:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Language: English
> Country: United States
> Keyboard: us
> Network: eth0 using DHCP
> Hostname: debian
> Mirror: http.us.debian.org
> Mode: novice
>
> You really think that will come across as a big blob of data, rather than
> a list of things that can be changed?
"A big blob of data" is a bit too much, I'll admit that.
However, assume the user knows nothing about what the heck "eth0", "DHCP",
"hostname" or even "mirror" is; then I'd believe it's confusing. :-)
Of course, if we could change to "first network card", "automatically",
"computer name" and "download site" or whatever, it would probably be
slightly easier. (I'm not really sure if those are sane terms or not, but
you'd probably get the idea.)
The question is, do we really need all of those? Even if the user har
specified "novice" first? What will it buy us over the current rather
"wizard-based" (if I can say that word without people throwing up ;-) )
approach?
Of course, I still think we shouldn't do too ugly hacks close to release. Of
course, nobody knows when release is supposed to be...
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