[haiku-development] Re: Installer (was: Re: BButton colors?)

Thom Holwerda <slakje@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> An installer should do just that - install the darn thing. 
> Configuration makes more sense - to me at least -  
> after (or better yet, during) first boot.

+1
 
> And as a final note - is there a list somewhere of 
> things the r5 installer can't do, but should do (or that
> could be relegated to first  boot)?

Install guides usually ask you to take a backup. I know I should but I 
hardly ever do. Adding an application specifically designed for pre-
install backup would make sense to me.

Good things come in threes: Installer, Backup, DriveSetup. 

It wouldn't have to be full-featured. One could even skip the usual 
picking a set of files off a certain filesystem (which may be 
unsupported), and just do partition and device cloning, partition 
layout and bootsector backup. Perhaps support FTP:ing to another box, 
and of course backing up to  removable media (USB and Firewire 
harddisks, DVD-RW). Some of this can be found in http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ 
I'm not saying it should be anything like it though.

/Jonas.

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