Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> writes: > Hi Phil, > > On 10.12.2016 01:03, Philip Hands wrote: >> Just to test things out, if one adds: >> >> url=hands.com/d-i/bug/846002/preseed.cfg >> >> to the kernel command line (so, hitting TAB as the installer's boot menu) >> it will tweaks d-i to have such a menu. > > To me, this looks like a very nice solution! In the tasksel screen, the > "back" button was enabled for the first time, but produced an error and > brought me back to the list of installation steps. > > Going through the sofware selection a second time made the back button > disappear. I have absolutely no experience with preseeding, so I can't > test it more than the interactive use case. Thanks for testing that, and don't worry about the preseeding bit. It's far from straight-forward, even for people that know what they're doing. I agree that the back buttons don't work (and should do, so that one can glance at tasksel and realise that you should bail out and select a simple option). I think it will need to be put into the scripts in tasksel itself to fix that, which will also remove the bits of the script that I'm unhapy about anyway (chrooting to set preseeds). That being the case, there's not much point testing with preseeding, as it's not going to be implemented like this, so this should just be considered a demonstration for now. Anyway, having done it, my first impression (which I'm surprised by) is that the list is too short -- I think that it is perhaps because it is much easier to select one option from a list than it is to decide what combination of options one wants. How about one or both of: bare-bones -- nothing selected minimal-server -- ssh and nothing else Is there any objective way of working out what other combinations would be popular, rather than just guessing? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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