Re: A project to provide a nicer GUI for installing debian ?
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> writes:
> There was a couple messages about live filesystems and other exotic and
> non-traditional methods of running Debian on -user. I'm investigating a Zip
> disk-based super-rescue disk and will be happy to share my experience found
> with building that with a project to do the same kind of thing for a CD-ROM.
> It's a little harder since one is a RW media with enough space but not lots
> of it and the other is media with lots of space and none of it writable.
On a zip you can install a normal Linux system. 100 MB are enough for
a client or rescue system.
> This would cost about 100 megs to have all the X servers installed I
> suspect. Do we really want that much? Maybe we should consider a 2.2.x
I had a System on a zip with 3 X severs. After deleting unwanted stuff
I got it down to 30 MB on a zip or a 13 MB gz file. If one is carefull
what to include one doesn't even need the 100 MB.
> solution and build it around GGI? Libggi can already run many places
> including the newest 2.1.x kernels' fbcon (which broke the kernels nicely,
> but of course will be fixed..) Under GGI you'd need one X server and the
> config of the whole thing is lots easier.
How much hardware is supported by ggi and in what resolutions?
> I don't think we want to change the whole installation for slink do we? I'd
> rather it wait for 3.0 personally where we'll likely have things like glibc
> 2.1 and GGI to make things a little cleaner and easier (for users and
> developers!) If I had to configure X just to install Debian I'd have not
> tried to install Debian. I had Debian installed in a couple hours. It was
> 3 months before I got X figured out enough to install it and I still can't
> effectively use it because of the font sizes.
Since a live filesystem would be only possible on CD's (100 MB are to
much to download just for installation) or as a rescue System build by
a Package its only possible to provide it as a second choice. It
should not replace the normal bootdisks, at least not until its down
to say 10 disks or so.
One could provide a minimal console live filesystem for installation
similar to the current one and an alternative big live filesystem with
X. That would of cause mean that we need a gui that can run on console
and X. (Exactly what is developed for the Dragon tools currently).
May the Source be with you.
Mrvn
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