[haiku-development] Re: Installer (was: Re: BButton colors?)
- From: Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:52:24 +0100
Jonas Sundström wrote:
Thom Holwerda <slakje@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
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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