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On Monday 26 January 2004 21:22, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:15, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > On Monday 26 January 2004 12:10, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> > > AFAICS, the only truly encompassing solution would be to provide an |
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> > > interface of sorts to a console. The user could view and edit commands |
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> > > generated by the installer, see their raw output, pause operation and |
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> > > insert commands of his own, etc. If he wanted to use something not yet |
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> > > provided by the installer, he'd just tell it to skip a step and do it |
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> > > manually. |
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> > This comes very close to my "split-screen-installer" idea where the |
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> > bottom would be a console and the top a helper function (ranging from |
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> > simple docs to something way more advanced) |
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> I say we just have a button somewhere that replaces a certain area of |
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> the screen with a console and can switch back when the user is done |
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> using console for whatever reason. |
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> We'd also need a way to skip certain steps of the installation, since |
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> they could be done in "manual mode." |
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Take a look at my reply I just send to esammer. |
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of course it would be even nicer if the user could disable the console if |
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wanted (starting with it would make it's existence obvious). I think it is to |
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be preferred to ctrl-f1 style "console-access" like in redhat-6.x (last |
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installer I used) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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