Add my vote to keep a text-based installer around. While most of the machines
that I've used could handle a graphical install, a fair number did not. If I
couldn't use a text-based installer, I'd be up the creek.
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On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> text style???
> > >
> > > keeping 2 different installs is hard.
> > >
> >
> >
> > I assume that the inference is that, at some point, a text install will no
> > longer be available.
> >
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> i know that keeping 2 different kinds of installs is hard. however: i would
> like to stress on the importance of a text-based installer. personally, it
> means less bloat and now that a i486 distro is available it means i can
> still install it without the bloat of X. even on a i686 i will choose
> text-mode. anyways, chances are that if you are using a text-based install
> (i will definitely choose this one) you're experienced, so if there's a bug,
> you know how to fix, it can be "less maintained" than the GUI install (yuck)
>
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>
>
> > Hoyt
> >
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