d-i vs openSUSE's ancient installer
Hi folks,
Recently I had the chance to install openSUSE 10.3 (2007) in a virtual
machine. Instead of many dedicated menus in a chain Suse presents one
big screen giving an overview over the most important installation
options and their current settings (e.g. location, partitioning, which
packages to install, etc.).
If you click on an item to change, then you get a submenu to do your
changes, next you are back to the big overview.
If you click on [enhanced], then you get a larger view with more details
to change.
That was really exciting. No click-next-to-continue orgy just to accept
the defaults. Within 2 minutes the basic configuration was done, even
though the installer was new to me.
It would be very nice to get something similar for Debian.
If you are interested: The ancient Suse 10.3 installation DVD can be
downloaded from
http://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.opensuse.org/discontinued/
Regards
Harri
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