Hi Adam, > On Mar 29, 2022, at 9:24 AM, Adam Peart <d...@capprogramming.com> wrote: > > If you had the base install by default, and gave the option to install the > separate categories as options that would work. If you wanted go go into > more details then you could list each item in each category and let people > choose individually, but that would probably be too much work for the > installer and for the user. But at least allowing people to choose whether > they want games, gui's, development tools, etc. would be nice instead of > installing everything for everybody. > > Adam
At present in NORMAL mode, the installer offers BASE, BASE + SOURCES, FULL and FULL + SOURCES. I was thinking that packages are easy to install afterwards using FDIMPLES. So, just skip thatqeestion in NORMAL mode. At present in ADVANCED mode, the installer offers BASE, BASE + SOURCES, FULL, FULL + SOURCES, CUSTOM and CUSTOM + SOURCES. When either CUSTOM is chosen, the installer launches FDIMPLES. FDIMPLES uses the package list from the installer and allows the user to modify it however they desire. When finished, it returns to the installer with a CUSTOM set of packages defined by the USER and installs that onto the system. I was thinking in this mode, keeping the BASE and CUSTOM options and discarding the FULL options. The end result would be.. Normally BASE gets installed and the user could install other packages that are included with the media afterwards if they wanted. Or when run in advanced mode, they could just install BASE or could include/exclude additional items at that time. The customization of the list of packages used by the installer under advanced mode was the original intent and usage of FDIMPLES. That is where the name originated. The FreeDOS Installer - My Package List Editor Software. Unlike the creator of Gif, I want the pronunciation of the acronym to be up to the community to decide. So, if you like FDIMPLES, FD-IMPLES, FDI-MPLES or some other way to pronounce it, go for it. I support your effort. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
