Joseph M. Maher wrote: > Debian needs an installer that aims to install debian on all ports under > all conditions. This installer might be "hard to use", i.e. you are > expected to know basic facts about your hardware and make decisions about > how you want things set up. > > However, many people may not want to use such an installer, so how about > also having an "80%" installer. This installer would aim to install debian > on 80% of generic i386 hardware, and will be happy to make all sorts of > decisions on your behalf, and will install xfonts-base and discover etc. > without even asking you. Maybe Knoppix would be a good base to work from > for this, rather than abusing debian-installer... d-i is meant to be morphable into that installer, by pumping up the debconf priority and turning on autodetection. It's all part of the second system design. ;-) Of course, very little work has been done to try to make that actually work. There is also PGI, which is likewise not getting much work that I can see. -- see shy jo
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