Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop-research

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:15:22
Message-Id: 200401262115.13688.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project by Dan Armak
1 On Monday 26 January 2004 12:10, Dan Armak wrote:
2
3 > AFAICS, the only truly encompassing solution would be to provide an
4 > interface of sorts to a console. The user could view and edit commands
5 > generated by the installer, see their raw output, pause operation and
6 > insert commands of his own, etc. If he wanted to use something not yet
7 > provided by the installer, he'd just tell it to skip a step and do it
8 > manually.
9
10 This comes very close to my "split-screen-installer" idea where the bottom
11 would be a console and the top a helper function (ranging from simple docs to
12 something way more advanced)
13
14 Paul
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17 Paul de Vrieze
18 Gentoo Developer
19 Mail: pauldv@g.o
20 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project Eric Sammer <esammer@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>