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  • From: Cory S <fubeca AT gmail.com>
  • To: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO: Graphical installers (was: ISO generation [back on-topic])
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:10:30 -0700

Something else to think about -- I ran the latest ISO installer with
framebuffer support on an old machine with a 16MB card. It didn't care
for it too much :).

It was easy to get around with the lowres option, but I think it
should work by default, hence a console-based install would be my
vote.


On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:17:16 -0600 (CST), David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
wrote:
>
> <quote who="Seth Alan Woolley">
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:38:06PM +0100, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> >> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:21:48 -0600 (CST)
> >> "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >> > Thinking about nice installer scripts, that framebuffer gtk deal. I
> >> need
> >> > to make the current installer script functions able to be called from
> >> that
> >> > so that it's easy. I'm not even sure that would be a good idea. It
> >> might
> >> > be easier then to write a graphical installer in perl with perl
> >> installer
> >> > functions.
> >> Hey, why is everyone starting to talk about graphical installers?
> >> Sure, they're nice, but consider,
> >> how many people use vcast or xsorcery? (I know 90% of the people who
> >> read
> >> this don't even know what I'm talking about)
> >> All of sorcery is console-based, I think it would be a little
> >> lying-on-the-package if the installer was graphical.
> >> If they get a text-based installer on the ISO, they know what to expect
> >> on the installed system.
> >> Just my 2 cents about graphical installers
> >> So Far,
> >> Karsten
> >
> > Agreed!
> >
> It was just a thought I was playing with, and I believe it was mentioned
> by someone else (I don't remember whom) that it would be possible with
> framebuffer gtk and ruby/perl/python. It doesn't matter that much.
>
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