How Goes it with Breezy?
David Woyciesjes
woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 11 18:47:55 UTC 2005
Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>>How about giving the user a choice as to which installer to use? Have
>>grub give them a choice of either the new graphical installer, or the
>>standard proven text one?
>
>
> Hmmm... Ubuntu is supposed to be simple and use reasonable defaults for
> human beings, not add unnecessary complexity by providing two things
> that do the same thing. So the graphical installer should be default, as
> it potentially lets us make it more user friendly, which is the prime
> objective of Ubuntu, to get everyone on it. I don't see why we would
> have to have both the ext and graphical installer, if the graphical one
> works, and since it will be based on the existing text installer anyway,
> why wouldn't it work ?
> Obviously, there is always the "expert" mode, which could potentially
> allow for a text installer, if for some reason the graphical one fails...
Yeah this is the general idea I had. I know (from experience) that Suse
9.0 offers the chance to interrupt the graphical from starting, and use
a text installer instead. Handy for laptops with funky video stuff.
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