mån 2003-04-28 klockan 21.48 skrev Drew Scott Daniels: > On 25 Apr 2003, Martin [ISO-8859-1] Sjögren wrote: > > > fre 2003-04-25 klockan 22.18 skrev Drew Scott Daniels: > > > Using today's image... choosing net at boot... > > > > If I may ask, why? That'll just get you an outdated net-1440 image. The > > default image, the cdrom image, is what's interesting on a > > businesscard/netinst image, that'll set up d-i from the CD and then do > > the rest from the net (actually, netinst will install base from the CD > > too) > > > Arbitrarily. Would you recomend that I start using cdrom for testing then? Yes, I would recommend that you just press enter on the prompt. Booting 'net' is no different from using the net floppy. Which you're free to do, of course, but I don't see the reason for using a CD for it. :) > > > > ons 2003-04-23 klockan 16.54 skrev Drew Scott Daniels: > > Sorry, it wasn't meant as a flame, I just happen to think that bochs is > > slow and that optimizing an installer for speed on bochs is low > > priority. > > > Np, I was trying to point out that it *might* be a problem for slower > computers too. Actually, Bastian Blank identified a problem in udpkg that was kinda stupid (the .list files were generated over and over again), anna runs waaaay faster now. :) > > > with 16mb of ram later... I was looking to this and noting that most of > > > the rest of the install was reasonably fast except for this part. > > > > That IS a problem. If nothing else, then for ramdisk size. Check df, the > > ramdisk is pretty big. > > > 24MB iirc... Hmm this might be something that needs to be worked on or at > least looked at... Perhaps not until later as most modern systems have > 32MB+. Out of curiousity, what did the old boot-floppies require? I seem > to recall it could occationally install on systems with 8MB of RAM. We don't use all the 24M, but we do use something like 10M, so I think we're going to have to demand 16M+ of memory in the computers we install on. b-f got away with a lot less since it was monolithic, one big program. > > Any suggestion for improvement in anna's template description is > > welcome. I'm planning on expanding the choices in the list with whatever > > will be installed automatically (them all being default to yes of > > course), so a nitpick can remove the ones they don't like, and in any > > case, it'll be a lot more visible that things are actually going to be > > installed. However, I think that question is very scary for a first time > > user, and for anyone installing from CD or a decent net connection, the > > default *should be fine*. I.e. a nitpick should pick debconf priority > > low. Any ideas? > > > I usualy do pick priority low and I usualy end up happily picking the > defaults. I think it would be nice to have the ability to exclude certain > "downloads". It might also be nice to see why packages were selected > somehow to help the "experts". As I said, I intend to change anna so that the list of packages also contain the ones that are now installed automatically, and move the question to priority low. That way, I hope both nitpick experts and scared newbies will be happy. :) /Martin -- Martin Sjögren sjogren@debian.org -- marvin@dum.chalmers.se GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello)
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