On 1/24/06, David Timms <dtimms(a)bigpond.net.au> wrote:
Rahul: would a method to achieve lots of peoples goals like the one
above not kill multiple birds with the one stone: ?
1. The UI stays neet, no special checkboxes.
2. Normal users probably wont find the option (hidden in a right click),
reducing it's actual use to special case where people need it, and
who'll learn how to do it.
3. Makes it much quicker for the user to install none of the options
within a category.
4. Makes it much quicker for the user to install all options within a
category. (even if only to have a minimum no of packages to unselect to
get ehat you really wanted).
5. Make it easy to select the installers defaults again.
What say you all ?
Does anyone know if it's possible to have a kickstart just change
certain defaults in the install but let you go through the graphical
installation process normally?
It might be possible, instead of having a hidden option, to just ship
a few kickstart configs on the CD/DVD.
Then you would boot the installer with something like:
linux ks=cdrom:/kickstart/minimal.cfg
I have only read about people using kickstart for fully configured and
non-automated installs, so I don't know if this is possible. It would
be really great if it was though.
n0dalus.