As far as I'm concerned, I agree with Jim on that one. Creating a super-power installer is pointless - it will take months to release (if it happens at all), while what I personally need is just an intro screen that warns me about all my disk going to be flushed, some 'OK' button so I give it a go, and 1 minute later I expect to have a shell on my freshly installed, minimalistic installation. When I want doing custom stuff, I do it it myself because I won't ever trust any automated tool to guess what I'm up to. In such case I'd need to be able to quit the installer and land on a floppy-based shell with sys, fdisk, format and ranish.
Shortly said, having a "perfect" installer would be nice, but here we are pointing at a cost-effective, realistic option that will still fit the majority of the user base. Ultimately, the choice goes to Jerome of course, since whatever he will create, we will use as long as it works reasonably well (esp. since there is no other choice of installer). Mateusz On 18/09/2015 00:23, Michael Brutman wrote: > I'm having a hard time trying to understand the requirement that the > install should be super simple. > > At this point in time, anybody installing any version of DOS is probably > not a novice. An installer should give you a choice of things to > install, broken down by groups and packages. Usually there are ten to > twenty high level groups to choose from, and then the individual > packages are available. It's not unreasonable to expect somebody > installing an OS to do some work to select what they want to install. > > The case where we want to encourage people to kick the tires on FreeDOS > is totally different. If you want a novice to be able to run FreeDOS > quickly then make a virtual machine image available to them. VMWare, > QEMU, and VirtualBox would cover almost everything. People trying out > FreeDOS in a virtual machine would expect to have everything installed > and available, and they probably have large enough machines to make a > full FreeDOS install look like a rounding error on the disk space. > > > Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
