CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

Lubomir Kundrak lkundrak at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 12:14:53 UTC 2007


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.

This already happens. Avoiding possible ugly solutions, the users with
sufficient hardware (DVD media and reader for it) are able to install it
more comfortably than ones that install from Live media or minimal
install CDs. That's perfect.

-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)




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