On 9 Jun 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
>
> - rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
> - runtime improvements
> - don't run fdisk -l that often
> - todo: make a libsfdisk from sfdisk
> - more complex datastructures (avoid using sed often)
> - more compl
Andy Mortimer:
> - rewrite dinstall in C:
First of all, I want to thank you for your work on "giggle", and on the
dialog emulation using "giggle". I think this is just the thing we need
for many configuration tasks on Debian.
I was thinking of using S-lang for the installation scripts. For the pe
Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > * Would be able to provide alternative modules for different purposes
> > >(such as a simpler one for a brail interface?), with no recoding. This
> > >also makes the provision of an X-based install much more reasonable
> > >(although IIR
On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote
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> Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote
> > >
> > > My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
> > >
> > > - rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
[snip]
> > > - more complex input masks and consistent user interface
[snip]
> > Please c
Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * separate the "install" session from the "configuration" session.
> IMHO a system install should be done by asking almost no question (except
> HD partitioning, and install media) in 10 minutes. All the configuration
> questions should IMHO be ask
Andy Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote
> >
> > My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
> >
> > - rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
> > - runtime improvements
> > - don't run fdisk -l that often
> > - todo: make a libsfdisk from sfdisk
> > - mor
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just think about it: consider Windows95, OS/2, AIX, MacOS, Linux.
> Linux is the only one to ask "what's your DNS IP addr?, etc..." in the middle
> of the installation.
Possibly because linux is the only one
On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote
> - slang (ncurses shouldn't be needed then, slang is said to have
> a curses emulation), or
slang's curses emulation is not complete, as far as i can say (i tried
to compile some programs with slcurses), and it has no panel/menu/form
emulation (the 3 lit
On 9 Jun 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> (Please check whether you answer really belongs to both mailing lists.)
>
> My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
(plenty of good stuff deleted ;)
I would add an additional idea:
* separate the "install" session from the "configuration" session.
IMHO a system
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: - new features
: - installation via serial terminal
An additional reason to do this is that non-PC platforms (Sparc, Alpha, HP
coming eventuall...) often run "headless" with onl a serial console and a
network interface for servers. Getting it right i
On Jun 9, Sven Rudolph wrote
>
> My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
>
> - rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
> - runtime improvements
> - don't run fdisk -l that often
> - todo: make a libsfdisk from sfdisk
> - more complex datastructures (avoid using sed often)
> - more complex i
(Please check whether you answer really belongs to both mailing lists.)
My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
- rewrite dinstall in C - reasons:
- runtime improvements
- don't run fdisk -l that often
- todo: make a libsfdisk from sfdisk
- more complex datastructures (avoid using sed
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