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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
one of the biggest qualms with the windows installer is that various
dialogs pop up dispersed throughout the installation, forcing the user
to constantly attend to the system (merely to hit "next" when the
appropriate time comes).
it appears to me that the debian-installer suffers this usability
concern as well. for example, user set up and configuration comes after
disk partioning (which can take a reasonble amount of time especially
ext3 on large disks). if user set up were before disk partitioning,
then the user would not need to wait as the installer could continue
directly into package download and installation.
i suggest that some time be spent considering the installation order of
operations, and making sure that the user is not being forced to attend
the system unnecessarily.
mike
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> it appears to me that the debian-installer suffers this usability
> concern as well. for example, user set up and configuration comes after
> disk partioning (which can take a reasonble amount of time especially
> ext3 on large disks). if user set up were before disk partitioning,
> then the user would not need to wait as the installer could continue
> directly into package download and installation.
>
> i suggest that some time be spent considering the installation order of
> operations, and making sure that the user is not being forced to attend
> the system unnecessarily.
As far as I know there is absolutely no way to have user-setup being
run before partman in the current way the installer is working.
We can of course keep this opened for a mythical future version where
everything would be broken to change the order for user interaction,
but I consider this extremely unlikely to happen some day.
If you feel that this BR should not be closed, please reopen it,
reassign it to user-setup and tag it "wontfix".
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