idea for installation - web

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 19:06 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 21:29 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:19:30AM +0200, חץ בן חמו wrote:
> > >
> > >> Could someone please add them to the boot menu please? I've been
> > >> searching for ages for those options and I didn't see it mentioned
> > >> anywhere.
> > >
> > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Installation_Guide/ap-admin-options.html
> > >
> > > It's just useless to add such options to the boot menu, as many
> > > of them require extra parameters (like "vncpassword").
> > >
> > > The "text" install is not very attractive to give as option.
> > 
> > Compared to the current graphically intensive, slow, and extremely
> > confusing "spoke and wheel" model that has next to nothing to do with
> > how the installation is actually done?

Grr. Somehow I cut out my reply to this bit. The text installer uses the
exact same 'hub and spoke' concept as the GUI does.

> >  it's added a lot of "conceptual
> > design" that actively impedes normal use.
> 
> if you can provide a single concise definition of 'normal use' for a
> Linux distribution installer, then I for one would like to hire you...

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