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Friendlier install
Friendlier install
Posted Oct 22, 2004 2:57 UTC (Fri) by jdub (subscriber, #27)In reply to: Friendlier install by HoserHead
Parent article: Ubuntu Linux and the future of Debian
The installer is based on debian-installer, but is fairly dramatically simplified.
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Friendlier install
Posted Oct 23, 2004 9:12 UTC (Sat) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]
Much as your explination of it has been. ;-)
(Most the the "dramatic simplification" is available by booting the standard debian installer with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical)
Friendlier install
Posted Nov 1, 2004 18:48 UTC (Mon) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link]
Joey, surely you realize that when that work began, the installation would fail in various ways if the priority was set to 'critical', and fixing those bugs was a significant part of our work on d-i.
Most, if not all, of that work has since been folded into d-i proper, but it isn't fair to trivialize it by implying that we simply changed the priority.
A great deal of effort was put into simplifying the process for a wider audience.