Re: graphical installer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:30:20PM -0700, Scott wrote:
> I just find them easier to use, myself, especially if you are going
> to be doing any partitioning. The best one I've come across in recent
> years is Red Hat's Anaconda. It's so good that the folks at Progeny
> picked it for their installer.
I've used anaconda a few times, although I confess only in text mode,
where it was certainly inferior to d-i for my circumstances. I do
remember some fairly useful graphical partitioning things in much older
distros (redhat 6.1 or thereabouts). I can certainly see that as being
an example of where graphical visualisation can improve things.
In terms of being easier to use, the GUI installers I've seen up until
debian-installer have been easier to use than the old boot-floppies
installer, and the text installers for other distros at the time
(slackware and er, gentoo I've used), but I've always put that down to
the other being not thought out as well as the GUI ones.
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Jon Dowland
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