Re: Gentoo installer project

Paul de Vrieze <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:15:13 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop.research
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 26 January 2004 12:10, Dan Armak wrote:

> AFAICS, the only truly encompassing solution would be to provide an
> interface of sorts to a console. The user could view and edit commands
> generated by the installer, see their raw output, pause operation and
> insert commands of his own, etc. If he wanted to use something not yet
> provided by the installer, he'd just tell it to skip a step and do it
> manually.

This comes very close to my "split-screen-installer" idea where the bottom 
would be a console and the top a helper function (ranging from simple docs to 
something way more advanced)

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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