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

Jonas Sundström wrote:

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


I don't agree. Doing all in one go will reduce the number of steps:

- collect all info
- install
- reboot

Otherwise it would be

- collect some info
- install
- reboot
- collect more info

If there isn't any good reason against that, why not?
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. 

This is a good idea.

- collect all info
- backup
- install
- reboot


Regards,

Gabriele

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