Re: Calamares Issue

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

didier.gaumet@gmail.com wrote:
>
>I may be wrong but I think Debian:
>- develops its own Debian Installer for installation, traditional way
>- has adopted Calamares for installation, the way Ubuntu has initiated 
>it in the past. That is: non bothering non-technical users with setup 
>questions they don't understand and basically copying a 
>live-distribution to a hard disk, with a pre-determined setup, without fuss.
>
>So I would say that if a user finds that Calmares is not satisfying 
>their needs, they would rather use the traditional Debian Installer 
>instead. I think nowadays (it's a welcome addition), it's also included 
>in the live Debian distributions...

Exactly. The live installation options in Calamares are *easy* for a
simple installation, but also incredibly limited in flexibility. For
wider choices, we very much recommend using d-i instead. It's still
not *hard*, but you might need to actually think about your
installation. If you really want to see all the options, run d-i in
expert mode. It takes a long time...

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