Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Oct 12 15:06:59 UTC 2010


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On 10/12/10 7:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:16:49PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> The only way to accomplish this without actually removing the features is 
>> to have two anaconda modes one for easy desktop installation and one full 
>> featured mode. This mode should be chosen not by the user but by the spin 
>> e.g. the desktop spin would use the easy mode and the server or workstation 
>> spins would use the full featured one.
> 
> Anaconda actually has the ability to do this with "install classes".
> 
> 

Anaconda used to have an Advanced mode where things like the complex
partitioning and package selection were hidden.  Turns out, the vast
majority of people who used anaconda and said something about it had
picked advanced mode, because they felt their case was special.  If
everybody uses advanced mode, that becomes the norm...

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Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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