>> lost major mindshare because their software was too difficult for >> folks to install. As dedicated hackers, we looked at ourselves and >> said: "WTF?" Then Mandrake and later Fedora came along and we saw >> how installs should work. Even eye candy can be important. :-( >I don't disagree with that - I just wouldn't want to spend my spare time >working on a nice installer that will work under every imaginable >operating system on every imaginable hardware. And I even less want to >have to support that kind of thing.
Like you, I agree with many of (the other) Paul's points. I'm a Bering USER for what that's worth. But I'm still using Bering 1.2, in large part because the customization process is so tedious. But I really, really like the idea of putting my firewall/router on a floppy and sliding that write-protect switch. If something starts happening, just pushing the reset switch fixes everything--start all over sucker! Even though I'm committed to wanting a floppy-based solution, I don't care how big the download/installation package is. I think we can assume the user has some sort of extra storage. It isn't necessary to do things all from a floppy. Now I could run it on a Linux host, but when I began using Bering-1.2, with *loadlin* I could also have run it on the DOS/Windows box. So make a decent (ncurses, be wary of GUI capabilities/requirements) installer, one that's easy to use, one that provides a variety of targets, including floppy, CF, USB, whatever. I don't think it's necessary that the target system be able to maintain itself, and that gives the floppy target a little extra room. What I need on the floppy is the operational firewall/router. If I need to change configurations, with the installer on a host system, and saving configurations there, it should be easy enough to just change whatever and write another target. Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
