(Please check whether you answer really belongs to both mailing lists.) My ideas on boot-floppies' future:
- rewrite dinstall in C - reasons: - runtime improvements - don't run fdisk -l that often - todo: make a libsfdisk from sfdisk - more complex datastructures (avoid using sed often) - more complex input masks and consistent user interface - network configuration: everything in one screen - selecting base directory in one screen - use : - ncurses and libdialog (from FreeBSD), or - slang (ncurses shouldn't be needed then, slang is said to have a curses emulation), or - turbovision (licence OK?), or - something else (suggestions welcome) - easier i18n (see below) - new features - installation via serial terminal - for blind users - for automated testing - use lilo in order to drive the serial line early (or modify syslinux ?) (what about GRUB ?) - an extra command-mode installation ? - installing base via ftp and smbfs (and from tape ?) - mouse support ? (gpm, or derived from gpm) - i18n plan - i18n for C files: use GNUish standard method ? (is this gettext ?) - i18n for shell scripts (swapsetup) (is there a good way for doing this) or rewrite them in C - i18n for busybox (is it worth the work and disk space ?) - try to keep i18n and localization separated - how many locale data sets will fit on floppy root.bin ? - bigger root.bin for loadlin booting - for floppies: make extra locale file that can be copied to Rescue Disk - assign versions to original and translated text in order to keep them in sync (and automatically find out when they aren't) - localization - translate text files - translations for the i18n'ed parts - minors - better 'make bootable': MBR isn't that self-explaining Related topic: I expect to have much less time for Debian for the remainder of this year. So I definitely need help here; especially for the UI part. Sven -- Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .