On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:44 pm, Mike Pogue wrote: > 5) TIME WASTING > Does it waste my time? (e.g. does it ask for things that the computer > already knows, say, because it already asked, or because it could have just > pinged the network for me rather than asking?, Or, does it ask me whether I > want DHCP (yes), and then ask me to type in IP addresses for my DNS server? > If I make a mistake, does it make me go all the way back to the beginning > to correct it, and then all the way back to the end? Does it ask me > questions about things that most people don't care about, e.g. Kerberos?)
This is one of the things I hate about the current install. Why it can't ask all the questions it does in a single dialog that scrolls down so I can edit all of them on one page, I don't know. Well, I take that back, I suspect it's because of the fact that we support low res monitor installations. If a dialog had a scroll, it would still work on all resolution monitors, since they can scroll. I don't know if this is along the same line, but does it install quickly or does it make me wait for a couple hours while it unpacks things? The Solaris "Upgrade" is really painful. Install is slow, but Upgrade seems to take a lot longer as it removes and installs the packages, AFAIKT. Upgrade might be a seperate issue in itself, but it is a part of the install and can't be ignored. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group
