On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:46:47PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:40:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > [ snip ]
> >
> >> > I think so many Debian-ites have not needed to install for such a long
> >> > time that they've forgotten what it is like. Perhaps that's why the
> >> > installer is so bare bones.
> >>
> >> Pretty sure you've nailed it there.
> >
> > I disagree. I think the debian installer has always been minimalist
> > because in the beginning all debian users were the kind of people who
> > knew their hardware inside and out, knew what was going to be asked
> > and what the responses should be, and thus did not care about fancy
> > interfaces and sensible prompts.
>
> Err, I don't think any installer existed in the beginning of Debian.
> And, it took at least a few years before installers for any distro began
> to get fancy.
Huh? What was that program on the rescue + root that I used to
install rex?
> These days, I think the installer is minimalistic because it has to be
> ported to so many arches (11 for woody). It's significantly more
> difficult to write a fancy installer that also works on all the arches
> Debian supports.
I'll grant you that. In fact, I like that the install looks and
behaves about the same whether I'm on an Ultra 30 or an Athlon.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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