Re: RFC: Change handling of priorities and install options
Quoting Frans Pop (aragorn@tiscali.nl):
> (Let's do an RFC party ;-)
>
> Personally I'm a fan of medium priority installs. Allows me to skip the
> DHCP probe when I'm testing from qemu, allows me to switch to VT2 to do
> stuff before/after each step.
> I also see a lot of users who go "hey, I'm an experienced user, so I
> should boot expert", while in most cases medium prio would be better
> suited.
>
> So I'd like to make "expert" installations run at medium prio by default.
Supported. A lot.
> This means we need a new mechanism to select low prio, and I'd also use
> the opportunity to set "advanced options" (like no DHCP) in a more user
> friendly way which also reduces the need to read docs first (which we
> know most users don't anyway).
>
> I propose adding the following screen at the beginning of a medium prio
> (or expert) install:
>
> *Choose advanced installation options*
> [ ] Select locales manually
> [ ] Static network configuration (DHCP is used by default)
> [ ] Prompt for module parameters
> [ ] ...
> [ ] Run installation in debug mode
And I like this a lot, also.
When do you imagine this to happen : before or after the lang
selection (/me would favor after localechooser....or in the middle of
it, which means this would have to go in localechooser)
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