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On 10/31/05, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Another thought would be an approach similar to the installer irc |
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> > channel where you have to read through a really long FAQ before you |
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> > are told how to download the stage1 or 2 tarballs. |
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> My personal impression is that this will piss off the end user. This |
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> works for the installer *channel* but would never work for a CD |
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> installation. It's simply asinine to ask the user to jump through hoops |
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> to do what they want. |
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Well I wasn't really referring to a CD (but in this case read the MS license |
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agreement when installing Windoze I think that would be the equivalent of |
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this :). What I was really referring to was putting up some sort of scenario |
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like that to download the stage1/2 tarballs. |
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Even if we stopped shipping stage1 tarballs, there's nothing stopping |
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> some inventive user from grabbing a stage3 tarball and making a stage1 |
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> tarball from it using catalyst. It only takes a couple hours on a |
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> decent machine. |
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True but if they fire up catalyst to make a stage1 chances are they aren't |
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going to be so dumb as to request support when their use flag combinations |
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don't work. The problem is ignorant users and most of them can't us |
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catalyst. |
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My point is that once again, we're not *really* removing choice even if |
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> we were to drop the earlier stages altogether, we're just making the |
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> user do the work themselves and removing one more abysmal headache and |
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> QA nightmare from our already enormous and growing list of stuff that |
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> has been delaying the past few releases well beyond our scheduled |
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> release dates. |
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Regardless of how foolish you may think it is to do a stage1 install (and it |
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may well be) I would still greatly appreciate the stage1 tarballs even if |
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you refuse to support them. Personally I have never needed support on a |
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stage1 that I couldn't get by simply RTFM. |
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-Mike |
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________________________________ |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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SoftGroup Development Corporation |
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Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. |
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