Bug#667506: RFS: install-debian/2.1.3 [NEW] -- command line installs Debian system non-interactively
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:04:03PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote:
> Have you reported your insatisfaction (think: bugreports)?
No. It has no sense, because of total insatisfaction.
> That's how debian-installer currently works
It is custom solution. By default it is dedicated CD.
> > It fully supports software RAID.
>
> … as does d-i.
This was main point, where I start to write my own installer. d-i has
very restricted solutions. For a years every time I tried to make
software raid with d-i, I was compelled to do this manually.
> > 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?
Yes, I know. But again, preseed is restricted complex and not convenient.
> d-i preseed can set the priority of questions, hence getting sane defaults for
> most things.
This is something else. There are no questions at all.
> > By default it chooses largest disk for installation.
>
> d-i can do that too.
It can, but my script do by default. In any way it is no matter.
> > If there are more then one such disk of the same size, it makes RAID array.
>
> d-i can do that too.
Again, this is by default.
...
> d-i can do that too.
...
So there are too much this phrases, here is common answer.
> So, what does install-debian better than what the debian-installer does? Or
> what does it that debian-installer doesn't?
d-i is menu-driven big system with huge number of components. It take a
lot of time to do simple and routine things by Your hands (by default
at least). install-debian is single shell script with command-line
interface only. You can simply run it without parameters and You've got
bootable system after 5 minutes with preferable defaults settings.
> > agree to rename it. Please, give me Your suggestions.
>
> Given the above, try d-i-d-nih-kit-2.0-ng .
Don't understand. It may be joke.
> P.S. That was my last mail to this bugreport: I won't sponsor install-debian
> so I'm not the one to convince.
You and me may write anything here about what they can do and what
can't. But only way to see true difference is to use it. I have
experience of using both software. Why do You won't give chance to users
to make their own choice?
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### Vladimir Stavrinov
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