On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 03:45:38PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I think that's probably true, but it also has prerequisites that may not > > be achievable. In other words, it's more user-friendly except when it's > > completely impossible (because the existing system doesn't boot, for > > instance). Other OS installers work fine in that situation if the > > hardware is capable of booting from USB. There's no need for us to be > > worse. > > d-i would continue to work in that situation, as it would in the OS > app situation. When downloading, you just click "I have no OS" instead > of "I have Windows/etc". The app approach would still use d-i as > normal, but the method to download, install, write the install medium > etc would be automatic instead of manual. > > The app approach can also improve the situation where there is no OS > installed by having a GUI for automatically checking there is space on > the USB stick, downloading/verifying ISOs and making it easy to write > to a chosen USB stick. > > For example of how much better the app approach could be for > inexperienced users; this is all nice and dandy, but we currently are not exactly overstaffed in regards to d-i development. IOW: I don't see how this will happen anytime soon & I doubt we would be ready for buster. On the other hand, simply linking the non-free images more visible, we could do now, for stretch and jessie even. IOW: perfect once again is the enemy of good and better. Sad! -- cheers, Holger
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