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Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install



Hi,

Am 28. August 2021 09:37:26 MESZ schrieb Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>:
>Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> writes:
>> Moreover, when thinking about this implementation, I'm quite uncomfortable with 
>> adding such paragraph into the "Using individual components" section, since this 
>> "change-init-system part" is no "installer component" like the others in this 
>> section (say: there is no 'change-init-system udeb').
>>
>> Therefore, I would be in favor of adding a separate section for such things as
>> section 6.5 after the "Loading missing firmware" section, like this:
[...]
>> + <sect1 id="misc-adaptions">
>> + <title>Miscellaneous adaptions</title>
>
>"adaptions" strikes me as slightly odd english -- I think
>"customisations" or "adjustments" would be a better choice.
>
>On the other hand the preceding sections are about how we accommodate
>people's preferences via debconf settings, so this is actually quite a
>departure from that, because it's something that people want to change
>that has to be done outside debconf, so the section heading should
>probably refer to that difference somehow.
>
>How about "Variations requiring manual intervention"?

Hmm, seems a bit cumbersome to me (but not a native
English speaker), and would people be able to imagine, 
what such chapter is about, judged from that headline?

@Justin?


Holger



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