Le mercredi, 4 avril 2012 21.24:08, Vladimir Stavrinov a écrit : > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 09:11:03PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > > Debian already has one component named the Debian Installer [0,1], which > > is > > As usual, I was not satisfied with it and hence wrote my own installer Have you reported your insatisfaction (think: bugreports)? By the way, from the description on install-debian's homepage: > It should be started from within Live CD, Network Boot or from any bootable > media, other then Your system disk. That's how debian-installer currently works > It fully supports software RAID. … as does d-i. > You can change defaults and most settings with command line options and > configuration variables. Do you know that you can preseed the Debian Installer to do exactly that? > All settings if not defined in config file or as command line options, will b > set to it's defaults either as constant values or evaluated from running > system. d-i preseed can set the priority of questions, hence getting sane defaults for most things. > By default it chooses largest disk for installation. d-i can do that too. > If there are more then one such disk of the same size, it makes RAID array. d-i can do that too. > Partitioning scheme supports separate partition for /boot, and separate > logical volumes for root filesystem, /usr, /var, /tmp and /home. Also there > are option to install system into single pre-mount point. In this case > partitioning and mounting every part leave on Your own. d-i can do that too. > This script installs only bit more packages then base system includes. The > main purpose is to get bootable system. After booting new system You can > install everything what You want. That's what d-i does too. So, what does install-debian better than what the debian-installer does? Or what does it that debian-installer doesn't? > > purely for name clashing reasons. (Note that I'm not judging the quality > > of your software, only its naming). > > I think it is hard to confuse "debian-installer" with "install-debian" > as well as "up" and "down". But if it is only reason preventing upload, I > agree to rename it. Please, give me Your suggestions. Given the above, try d-i-d-nih-kit-2.0-ng . Cheers, OdyX P.S. That was my last mail to this bugreport: I won't sponsor install-debian so I'm not the one to convince.
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