On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 07:08:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut]
> > > g4sra via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Media partitioning, formatting > > > > Configure mountpoints > > > > Install Bootloader > > > > Install Kernel, Modules & Firmware > > > > Install Shell & package management software > > > > Configure console > > > > Configure network > > > > Boot > > > > > > > > Discuss... [cut] > > I'm not sure how minimal your preinstall would be, but what I've found > difficult in the old days was finding the right device drivers, > figuring out which packages to install to get them, enough network > configuration to be able to download them, and, in the *really* old > days, guessing the monitor geometry I need to get X to work. > > It was annoying to have to have to figure these thing out after install > time whem the installer had already found answers that worked for it. > :D You see: in just two emails we have come from a *minimal* base installation (a shell with a kernel, a bootloader, and a working dpkg/apt) to a fully-functioning network server (an ssh server with configurable keys!) and a working X config. Another three emails and we get requests for automatic partitioning, automagic disk encryption, remote shell during install, choice between different mirror configurations, localisation, choice of meta-packages for typical use-cases and..... ...and we end up with something of the same complexity of the current debian-installer. We keep saying we crave for minimalism. But the same concept of *minimalism* has become quite bloated in the last 20 years :) HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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