Re: Gentoo installer project

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On Monday 26 January 2004 21:21, Eric Sammer wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > 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)
>
> I could see something like this in the same format as a development IDE
> with a build window below the text editor. The more I think about it,
> the more have a console view with pausable stages is a good thing. It's
> useful for debugging and testing as well.

I really am thinking of a fully functional console (that does not need to b=
e=20
used)

In ascii art it would look something like, where next would just take you t=
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the next screen. Maybe the top part could also have a vertical split with=20
options on the left and the handbook on the right (automatically put on the=
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right section)
__________________________________________________________
|      Partition the hard-disk                           |
|                                                        |
|     [parted]                       [qparted]           |
|                                                        |
|     [fdisk]                        [cfdisk]            |
|                                                        |
|                                                        |
|  [previous]                                    [next]  |
=2D---------------------------------------------------------
| #                                                      |
|                                                        |
|                                                        |
|                                                        |
|                                                        |
|________________________________________________________|

Paul
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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: [email protected]
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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