Re: Installation
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:
> 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 know :)
>> > 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.
I know that, too :) You suggested it might be difficult, so I suggested
to do it the other way round ...
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