Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@getmail.com>]

Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:

> Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:20:00AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
> >   
> >> A totally gui install would make Debian feasible for a huge number of
> >> home desktop users migrating from Windows.
> >>     
> >
> > Why?  Why does a GUI installer make it feasable, but a ncurses installer
> > not make it feasable?  It's unfortunate that Debian has actually caved in
> > to this pressure.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> My point was that installing Debian should be no more complex than 
> installing other operating systems. Debian could potentially attract a 
> large number of home desktop users from Windows now that Windows 98 is 
> no longer 'supported' and Windows XP is soon to be replaced. Anyone 
> installing Windows would not expect to have to use the DOS commandline 
> during the process.

But XP still has the first part of the setup in TUI mode. The
partitioning is done in TUI mode, which is probably the most dangerous
part of the setup (from the human error point of view).

Regards,
Andrei
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