[Rule-list] Miniconda, slinky, and other OSes

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 3/27/2002 02:06 AM +0100, Martin Stricker wrote:
>Devon wrote:
>
> > Miniconda, just like the stock Red Hat installer asks where you want
> > to install the boot loader. It also detects (at least) a windows
> > install and adds an entry to dual boot.
>
>But it's quite dumb there: *Any* primary FAT/VFAT/VFAT32 or NTFS
>partition will show up there, there is no real OS-probing. If I find
>this behavior in Skipjack, too, I'll bugzilla it.
>
>[snip]
>
>I think for now slinky doesn't need OS detection - before that it must
>be able to use other partitions than the default /dev/hda[1-3]. If there
>already is a Windows it'll sit in /dev/hda1 and maybe /dev/hda5.

My $.02: we will often need to differentiate between priorities. OS 
detection would be a great thing, but it's already been noted that the 
majority of our users will not need this. Hence, OS detection does not 
belong with the "must have" features that right now are our priority, but 
rather with the "it would be great if we could do this" features that will 
come somewhat later.

Network installs with slinky, full functionality and development, multiple 
language translations, and decent documentation (to buck the Linux trend) 
all come before OS detection in my book. Giving the user the ability to 
boot another OS which is already in /dev/hdaX is good enough for now.


-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at indahaus.com


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