0.94 first impressions

[Stephan Schutter]

I vote that the installer PnP all the hardware. Full stop. Why would you 
not want to do that????? If  the hardware is there... it is probably for a 
reason. And that reason is not that I am a geek and would like to sit 
around for days after installing the OS and configuring various 
peripherals. If you like doing that, then use slackware. 

An express option (default kickstart) would be cool tough...

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Craig Ringer wrote:

>   >>Of course I'm pretty fanatical about this concept - I'd like to
> >>make anaconda install just enough software so you can then reboot
> >>and run redhat-config-packages to choose all the remaining software
> >>you want. That way we could put all our effort into that tool which
> >>you will use many times, instead of the installer which you use
> >>once every many many months.
> > 
> > This would seriously rock, don't give up cheerleading it.  The whole 
> > worship of the installer god seems to me a false religion.
> 
> Absolutely. Stuff the do-it-once install - the use-it-forever management 
> tools are rather more critical, and when you can avoid duplication of 
> effort as well (eg package management and installation), it's really 
> win-win.
> 
> That need not mean an overly cut-down, hard to use intaller - only a 
> minimalistic one that need not discover, say, if you have a DVD burner 
> or sound card when it will never need those things to do it's job. The 
> number of times I've wished the RH installer could partition the HDD, 
> dump a copy of it's self on the disk, write an MBR and reboot...
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
> 
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