Frans Pop wrote: > 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. Can you give some examples of questions asked in low priority that are unsuitable for expert mode? > 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 This is a pretty good idea, but how do you make the list content modular? What about options that depend on other options? If you come up with a sufficiently good way then it could also be used to implement my previous idea of making the first stage of d-i be a list that lets the user configure everything, or skip configuring it if the installer guesses right. > These choices would set debconf vars like "settings/select_locales". Which > means that the display of some dialogs will be governed by both debconf > priority and their associated setting. > The last option would activate low priority. Why not just use the seen flag? -- see shy jo
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