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Re: [opensuse-project] Bad reviews about 10.3 (was: Redirector issues)
- From: James Tremblay <jamesat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:06:29 -0400
- Message-id: <1192043189.4876.10.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:23 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:01:55 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 03:25 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> > > This is easy to remedy.
> > > Make basic installation from CD running and offer clear information that
> > > system would continue installation in background. Keep some panel with
> > > installation process information available and users will be happy.
> > >
> > > Throwing everything in installation when computer can't be used for
> > > anything else is not really good, and that happened with KDE CD because I
> > > didn't expected that CD will attempt to download DVD ;-)
> >
> > Mmmm... now, that would be nice. Having the CD/DVD install all it can,
> > reboot, then automatically continue downloading and installing everything
> > else, but from the already running system. Or give the option to choose.
> >
> > Would that be possible/practical/good? :-?
>
> Possible: Yes.
> As I stated in another sentence I did a large update that was done without my
> help. All I had to do was to reboot computer to start using new kernel.
>
> Practical: Yes.
> All it takes is to warn user after basic installation that there is much more
> to see, present list to choose from, confirm whole list and start using what
> is available; already installed, or use YaST for detailed choices. The only
> add on would be report what is available, something like list what is
> installed by that moment that will be in a tray and user can click it to see
> is his favorite already installed.
>
> Good: Yes.
> Long boring installation will be replaced with something that takes 10-15
> minutes on todays computers, and the rest will run in background, from CD,
> DVD or Internet.
>
I have installed "certain other" distro's from a live CD it was fast, I
could still browse the Internet and the "package manager" had the
default repo's already configured on reboot. With the current 1CD
patterns as profiles adapted for kiwi's live CD process, it should just
be a matter of automating a disk partition routine, copying the cd
contents to the new disk partition, installing grub and modifying
initrd. simply beautiful! leave the DVD for network administrators and
custom installers.
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
213 S. Main st
Newmarket NH, 03857
603-659-3271 *318
CNE 3,4,5
MCSE w2k
CLE in training
Registered Linux user #440182
http://en.opensuse.org/educationk
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> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:01:55 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > The Tuesday 2007-10-09 at 03:25 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> > > This is easy to remedy.
> > > Make basic installation from CD running and offer clear information that
> > > system would continue installation in background. Keep some panel with
> > > installation process information available and users will be happy.
> > >
> > > Throwing everything in installation when computer can't be used for
> > > anything else is not really good, and that happened with KDE CD because I
> > > didn't expected that CD will attempt to download DVD ;-)
> >
> > Mmmm... now, that would be nice. Having the CD/DVD install all it can,
> > reboot, then automatically continue downloading and installing everything
> > else, but from the already running system. Or give the option to choose.
> >
> > Would that be possible/practical/good? :-?
>
> Possible: Yes.
> As I stated in another sentence I did a large update that was done without my
> help. All I had to do was to reboot computer to start using new kernel.
>
> Practical: Yes.
> All it takes is to warn user after basic installation that there is much more
> to see, present list to choose from, confirm whole list and start using what
> is available; already installed, or use YaST for detailed choices. The only
> add on would be report what is available, something like list what is
> installed by that moment that will be in a tray and user can click it to see
> is his favorite already installed.
>
> Good: Yes.
> Long boring installation will be replaced with something that takes 10-15
> minutes on todays computers, and the rest will run in background, from CD,
> DVD or Internet.
>
I have installed "certain other" distro's from a live CD it was fast, I
could still browse the Internet and the "package manager" had the
default repo's already configured on reboot. With the current 1CD
patterns as profiles adapted for kiwi's live CD process, it should just
be a matter of automating a disk partition routine, copying the cd
contents to the new disk partition, installing grub and modifying
initrd. simply beautiful! leave the DVD for network administrators and
custom installers.
--
James Tremblay
Director of Technology
Newmarket School District
213 S. Main st
Newmarket NH, 03857
603-659-3271 *318
CNE 3,4,5
MCSE w2k
CLE in training
Registered Linux user #440182
http://en.opensuse.org/educationk
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