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David Longo wrote: |
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> Hello Everyone, |
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> I have been installing various distros in virtual machines to check |
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> out their installers and I came across one thing. With Windows and |
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> Suse and a few others, there is a pretty slideshow that tells all of |
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> the benefits of their system...instead of that, what about if Gentoo |
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> were to have a slideshow of a lesson on linux. I mean, one of the |
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> points of the 40-page manual text-based install is for users to learn |
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> linux...so if we're replacing it, we could at least talk them through |
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> linux...What do you think? |
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It depends on the "target group" of the "installer". |
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If you are thinking about "gentoo-linux" for "home users" |
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it might be a good idea to have such a slide show during installation. |
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If you are thinking about "gentoo enterprise linux" you should focus |
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on fully automated (silent) setups. |
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My daily business is the later case (but for Win32 platforms) and I |
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have to say that all those "pretty GUIs and slide shows" |
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(OS Deploy, Software Packages) are quite annoying... |
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Nothing is more comfortable then having "configuration templates" (XML-Files) |
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that are applied automatically (and silently) during setup. |
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Much more important than a "GUI" might be |
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- "Recovery in case of errors", |
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- "Backup of existing data", |
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- "Reporting of installation success and errors", |
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- "Database backend for the templates/profiles", and |
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- "Launching the setup from PXE" |
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-Axel |
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