UI considerations with gfxboot

daniele favara danjele at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 15:30:40 GMT 2005


i feel you should fix the kroete.dat part of gfxboot code ... try to press
F8 ... that's worst then the timeout i think

On 12/19/05, Colin Watson < cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:22:16AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2005, 22:42 +0000 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Philip Axer wrote:
> > > > What's about:
> > > > Install Ubuntu Desktop
> > > > Install Ubuntu Server
> > > > Install Ubuntu OEM
> > > >
> > > > Start   Ubuntu Rescue System
> > ...
> > > "Desktop" may be a worthwhile thing to put in the default boot option,
>
> > > though.
> >
> > that would clash with edubuntu, which installs a classroom server by
> > default ...
>
> Edubuntu can have additional option names of its own without too much
> trouble. I just don't want to have to re-translate strings containing
> "Ubuntu" to contain "Edubuntu" instead, that's all.
>
> > apart from the "server" keyword for a install i'd call "minimal",
> > since (at least in edubuntu) its very confusing, to my knowledge the
> > server install in either of our distro flavours doesnt even install
> > any server processes.
>
> As I said to you the other day, that option was renamed from "custom" to
> "server" at Mark's request last year to try to dispel the "Ubuntu is
> only for desktops" myth. Mark, what do you think about this in the
> Edubuntu case, where the standard Edubuntu installation actually does
> more server-ish things like building an LTSP client chroot? I'd be in
> favour of renaming it to "Install a base system" or something in that
> case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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