CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:02 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Jeu 11 octobre 2007 17:18, David Zeuthen 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
> >
> > It's theoretically possible to do a reboot-less install
> 
> I'm not objecting to the reboot I'm objecting to having interactive
> install phases both before and after the reboot.

That's a fair objection (and according to jeremy this can be fixed in
the future). 

Btw, we have a couple of other bugs (probably more urgent) like that;
for starters my pet peeve is firstboot; we really ought to query the
user for this information (set up users, user image (gnome cheese or
ktuberling!) etc.) at live cd install time; preferably utilizing the
time span when we're copying the OS payload to the system.

      David