From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:22:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075148552.16718.7.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401262115.13688.pauldv@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 15:15, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2004 12:10, Dan Armak wrote:
>
> > AFAICS, the only truly encompassing solution would be to provide an
> > interface of sorts to a console. The user could view and edit commands
> > generated by the installer, see their raw output, pause operation and
> > insert commands of his own, etc. If he wanted to use something not yet
> > provided by the installer, he'd just tell it to skip a step and do it
> > manually.
>
> This comes very close to my "split-screen-installer" idea where the bottom
> would be a console and the top a helper function (ranging from simple docs to
> something way more advanced)
I say we just have a button somewhere that replaces a certain area of
the screen with a console and can switch back when the user is done
using console for whatever reason.
We'd also need a way to skip certain steps of the installation, since
they could be done in "manual mode."
Donnie
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 5:35 [gentoo-desktop-research] Gentoo installer project Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 9:57 ` dams
2004-01-26 10:58 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 14:16 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:07 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 13:37 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:11 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:19 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:20 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-28 11:55 ` dams
2004-01-26 11:10 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 14:33 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 17:48 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-26 20:15 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:21 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 20:27 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:22 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2004-01-26 20:30 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-01-26 20:22 ` foser
2004-01-26 20:25 ` Donnie Berkholz
2004-01-26 20:37 ` Eric Sammer
2004-01-26 22:41 ` Dan Armak
2004-01-27 0:05 ` Scott Koch
2004-01-27 6:07 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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