On Mi, 12 sep 12, 02:28:48, lee wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes: > > > > You can press (Ctrl+)Alt+F1 to get a console :p > > > > (SCNR) > > Wasn't that F3? And then you try to start a web browser and it says > "command not found". Not even less is available, only more, which I > otherwise never use :( Then try to burn a CD or something ... Emacs? > Command not found ... joe ... command not found ... vi ... command not > found ... vim ... command not found ... I don't remember what works, > nano maybe? Or pico? Or what? find ... command not found ... shit :( Now > what? ls -laR | more, yuck q ... tab tab y ... hmmm ... That was a joke, sorry if it wasn't obvious :) > > I'm guessing Debian's Installer would need quite some rework to > > enable it to work on an already running (possibly live) system. > > Lots of packages would have to be added, I guess. When you think of it, > the installer just boots a kernel and runs a minimal system and mainly > the installer on it. If some more packages were added, we could have at > least a good choice of editors and lynx. > > There's the GUI installer as well. I never tried it, but why can't they > just add seamonkey or another GUI browser and some program that can burn > CDs/DVDs? Because they want to keep the disk images small? I was suggesting to enable d-i to work from inside Debian Live. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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