On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Steve Shorter wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > installation easier requires hard work. If it would be easy, it would have > > been long done. The trick is to keep flexibility (and don't tell me SuSE is > > flexibel). Doing it easy for the newbie and configurable for the experienced > > user requires a well though out configuration and administration system. At > > least for multi-installation this is currently developed on the > > debian-admintool list. > > I suspect that it is impossible to get the best of both worlds > in a single solution. You would probably end up with the worst of both. > Perhaps it would be good to consider two (2) different installations > One the same/similar to what we have - and another that caters to newbies > ie. one that is easy/basic and satisfies the pedagogocal requirments of the > new user. If debian were able to have both the advanced capability that > it has now AND a simple basic install for novices and teaching purposes > it would stand out amongst all other dists. Would it not? Like who else > has thought about the REAL requirements of the newbie? I mean as a future > technical user?
I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at once at the beginning, and then gets on with it. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
