On 05/22/2018 12:34 AM, Jonathan Carter wrote:
On 21/05/2018 22:25, Richard Owlett wrote:https://desktop.aims.ac.za/getting-started/I browsed the site. It did not attempt to answer the type of calamares questions I might have. But the description of aims was intriguing. I'll experiment with the live system.That page above provides screenshots of the calamares installer (as used in that derivative). Your question was what calamares is to the end user, I don't know what could illustrate it better than that.
Actually it does represent the user experience. It just wasn't what I was expecting [I'm known to do things "differently" ;] I downloaded and ran aims-desktop-2017.1-20171025-amd64.iso .While running it in live mode everything ran well and I'm intrigued by some of the apps to try them in an environment I comfortable with [MATE and SeaMonkey, rather than Gnome and Firefox].
I ran the installer [w/o internet connection]. The install matched the screen shots.I particularly liked the GUI for disk partitioning. Enough that I would suggest to Debian use that portion in d-i.
I had some problems running the existing Debian system. The symptoms suggest a hardware problem. I'll run some diagnostics and reinstall Debian followed by Aims and report back.