Suggestions

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:30:15PM +0200, Astrit Zhushi wrote:
> - I have and HTT PIV processor and Ubuntu install -386 kernel ( no smp 
> support ), wouldn't it be better if the installer detects this and 
> installs the -686-smp kernel ?

We discussed that, and we decided that we would rather save the CD space
for other things. Netboot installs automatically use optimised kernels
as appropriate.

> - Before checking for DHCP wouldn't it be better to ask the user first 
> if he/she wants to configure network manually or via DHCP, and not first 
> check for DHCP and then ask the user for manual configuration.

Naïve users will have no idea what DHCP is. :-) I think it's better to
attempt to pick a sane default first and then confirm it, which is
exactly what automatically trying DHCP constitutes.

> - And also the installer does not ask you ( I am not sure about this 
> please correct me ) for the time server you want to use or if I want to 
> use NTP at all, this is because it takes some time to startup Ubuntu ( 
> pour network connection, no network etc... )

It definitely shouldn't ask (again, imagine a new user, "what's a time
server?"), but we should time out more quickly here.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]