tis 2003-07-08 klockan 13.36 skrev Patrik Hagglund: > Well, excuse me for being frank. I don't mind you being frank, but I think this is the wrong forum for talking about a different installer. A better way would be to send a mail to debian-boot, saying "I've got this idea for an installer, I've started working on it, here's some info" > I think that the main problem with menus is that you easily get > completely lost when something goes wrong, and I got the > impression that debian-installer is in a state where things can go > wrong (both because of errors in the debian-installer code and > user errors). Yes, there is a shell prompt, but you don't know how > to use it unless you know how debian-installer works under the > hood. Of course it can go wrong, it's not even beta yet. However, doing *something else* will not improve the status of d-i! The shell prompt has nothing to do with d-i. In my opinion you cannot install "with d-i" on a shell prompt, because everything is done with debconf. E.g., we store data in the debconf database. You can, of course, install a system using only the shell, because the commands are available, but it has nothing to do with d-i. > Excuse me for being frank again, but I had been more impressed if > I had been able to say: "Oh, it works. You only need to create a > user interface." But maybe that's just me, and maybe a user > interface is more interconnected with the underlying mechanisms > than I think. Yes, they are closely connected, there's a lot of stuff that requires asking questions of the user. /Martin -- Martin Sjögren martin@strakt.com Phone: +46 (0)31 7490880 Cell: +46 (0)739 169191 GPG key: http://www.strakt.com/~martin/gpg.html
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