CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 11 octobre 2007 14:14, Lubomir Kundrak a écrit :
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:10 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Le Jeu 11 octobre 2007 11:17, Lubomir Kundrak a écrit :
>> >
>> > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 08:30 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> >> Le mercredi 10 octobre 2007 à 22:23 -0400, seth vidal a écrit :
>> >>
>> >> > livecd - you can do pkg selection after you're installed
>> >>
>> >> And users do not want that. That's the same thing as the "reboot
>> >> before continuing" windows plague
>> >
>> > What's wrong with that? You have to reboot anyways.
>>
>> It's user-unfriendly. People want to configure their install, press
>> go, and walk away do other stuff while the install proceeds.
>
> Every activity that deals with computers consists of user actions and
> waiting for a computer to finish a task, and then action again, etc.
> The
> software just have to balance the extent this happens to depending on
> complexity of possible software solutions and available hardware.

Err, I'm sorry but the guy who wrote the MS installer could have
answered the same as you.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot