[Mageia-dev] deprecate text installer

Fri Mar 9 00:30:25 CET 2012

On 03/07/2012 09:34 PM, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
+> considering https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4724 and that it's likely
+> not working in cauldron for months, and also considering it's beyond our perl
+> guru jq and our drakx-guru tv, and considering it looks like google didn't
+> help... and considering there's 4 or 5 text-installer bugs i wanted to test
+> out...
+>
+> perhaps we should consider in fact that text installer does not work...
+> after all, if we get this fixed, there's still the other text-installer bugs...
+>
+> maybe it's premature for me, but considering this is version freeze... we're
+> getting closer to the end...
+>
+>
+> WDYT?
+
+This made me think of systems managed through IPMI or ALOM (yup, that
+later is only a Sun thing, but to get the idea...), and I don't think this
+interfaces are capabe of VGA graphics.
+That is not a big deal, but it forces you to attach a monitor to the VGA
+to install.
+
+BTW, will the text installer ever work through IMPI ? Is it even possible
+that kinkd of install ?
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
+