Installer: again

Dan Melomedman dan at devonit.com
Sun Feb 15 08:26:16 PST 2004


Robert Garrett wrote:
> It must have a console interface


> It must run under X 

What? X? That's just too much of a requirement. X is associated with
pain in my mind.

As long as it's stable, and doesn't come with unpredictable
behavior and crappy design. I am sick of the crappy FreeBSD
installer segfaults which make me restart the process several times
before I get what I want from it without a segfault.

Take a look at the OpenBSD installer. Simple and it works, never
a segfault, or a dialog loop. Take a look at the Debian installer for
some design ideas.





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