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Old 12-13-2008, 01:31 PM   #31
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Okay, I can't resist adding my two cents even though it looks like the OP is long gone.

I agree with most of the rationale already said. My experience with graphical installers such as Mandriva and Ubuntu have been that they oversimplify the partitioning process to the point of being dangerous. In order to avoid scaring the newbie with too much information, they don't provide enough detail into what they are actually about to do to your drive.

Something else I'll add is that a distro's installer reflects the character of the distro. If you're marketing your distro to the "shoot first, aim later" types, then by all means give them an autopilot installer. The entire Slackware experience is built on providing documentation with the assumption that the user will bother to read it before he jumps in and starts breaking things. Slack's installer (and update process, and package management, and startup scripts, and networking, and ...) is extremely well documented and shouldn't be at all daunting if you've done some preparation. If a user isn't willing or able to do that prior to performing the non-trivial task of installing an OS, then Slackware isn't going to be a good fit for them anyway.
 
Old 12-13-2008, 03:01 PM   #32
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I would be more concerned about problems with backing out of things and redoing something rather than it being more graphical.

I have only 2 annoyances with slackware's install

1. my apparent inability to properly back up between the first 3 steps of setting up the drives (for example when setting up the hard drives and you select one you didn't want to select then hit cancel you are automatically sent to the next step! instead of back to the hard drive set up).

and

2. my apparent inability to edit lilo.conf by hand. There aren't many options for advanced set up in this area. I would like the ability to auto generate an approximate lilo.conf then forgo installing lilo. However, nothing a skip lilo install and 'chroot /mnt' can't fix. I usually have other setups I like to perform before restarting... like creating the initial user and other such things.


I suppose the only thing that is really truly missing from the ncurses install is a step to create at least one user. I'm sure that there is a warning somewhere during the install to do this afterward... no?
 
  


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