[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 RC - Installation from a DVD with a beginner point of sight

Thu May 10 18:29:52 CEST 2012

Op donderdag 10 mei 2012 18:16:11 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
+> 2012/5/10 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+> > Op donderdag 10 mei 2012 13:08:33 schreef Pierre Jarillon:
+[...]
+> >> 3- After the installation,  it should be great to have a screen saying:
+> >> - you may select the sources of software and for example, unselect the
+> >> CD/DVD, add the non-free, the tainted and their updates which are
+> >> necessary to allow flash and mp4.
+> > 
+> > I think it might be nice for a screen there (before updates) to select
+> > cdrom (by default off), network sources (by default on) and maybe a few
+> > subcheckboxes below (nonfree, tainted, backports) which could be
+> > unselected by default. Possibly an advanced window here to have manual
+> > selection of mirror.
+> 
+> Not possible for people who do not have network up during installation
+> (lots of wifi users).
+
+imho the network shouldn't need to be up to select this:
+
+this is what you'd get:
+
+[  ] DVD
+[X] Network
+      [X] Updates
+      [  ] Backports
+      [  ] Nonfree
+      [  ] Tainted
+
+there could even be a detection that if network is down, DVD would also be 
+selected.
+
+i see no reason why we should not enable network sources if there's no 
+network, shouldn't it fallback to the DVD then?
+
+and people could say i deslect DVD anyway, and ok, there will be no updates 
+until you actually get to be online... but there's no harm in that.
+
+of course, this has some major refactoring
+
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