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

Thu May 10 18:51:45 CEST 2012

2012/5/10 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+> 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
+
+Network must be up to download the hdlists. Otherwise you need to
+change the whole system, like after reboot after installation check
+continuously for network ceonnection (until success) and then download
+the hdlists.
+You also need a network connection to select a dedicated mirror.
+
+> 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?
+
+This makes no sense because the needed packages of tainted and
+non-free are not on the DVD anyway. And as soon as the user reboots he
+has to unmark the DVD anyway.
+
+Of course, everything is possible, but the question is whether it
+makes sense to do such major "refactoring". The setting up of sources
+is almost automatical once you rebooted your system. A popup of the
+update icon will tell you that there is no sources configured yet. If
+you answer with "Yes" to the related question, the setup will be done
+with mirrorlist. See: newbie-friendly. All you have to do then is to
+activate the non-free and tainted repos, which is (as already written)
+an "opt-in" task and can't be done by default.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+