On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 11:10:20AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:36:45 +0000
> > g4sra via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > > Media partitioning, formatting
> > > Configure mountpoints
> > > Install Bootloader
> > > Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware
> > > Install Shell & package management software
> > > Configure console
> > > Configure network
> > > Boot
> > >
> > > Discuss...
> >
> > Above all else, query the user for his/her preferences, and coach the
> > user while making such decisions. Such decisions serve as input to your
> > list, which seems quite complete to me.
>
> I would be quite happy to write from scratch an installer that does
> *exactly what is reported in that list* and nothing more. I mean,
> something that just *installs the base system and a boot loader and
> reboots you to the login prompt*.
>
> However, I am pretty sure that 99.9% of the Devuaners would probably
> find the result quite uncomfortable, inconvenient, skinny, and overly
> archaic. The main reason being that they (we) are used to perform part
> of the system configuration *at install time*, and we just don't
> realise how many other different things are done by d-i under the
> hood.

I'm not sure how minimal your preinstall would be, but what I've found
difficult in the old days was finding the right device drivers,
figuring out which packages to install to get them, enough network
configuration to be able to download them, and, in the *really* old
days, guessing the monitor geometry I need to get X to work.

It was annoying to have to have to figure these thing out after install
time whem the installer had already found answers that worked for it.

If these things are taken care of, I'd be happy with that.

-- hendrik