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Re: [Debathena] #160: Live CD needs improvement for general
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:58:36 -0000
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#160: Live CD needs improvement for general consumption------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
Reporter: jdreed | Owner: xavid
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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* cc: xavid (added)
* status: new => assigned
* owner: => xavid
Comment:
Logins fail miserably in a lot of situations, which is why the greeter
suggests that you log in as Ubuntu to get network working. Automated
network-situation detection would be cool, but seems difficult to get
right without it getting in people's way. Though, since the installer
currently fails without Internet (which I believe is an upstream issue,
but need to look into more), making sure people have internet before
installing is pretty key. Unconditionally prompting the user for a static
IP address seems like a failure for the target audience of frosh-
installing-Debathena-on-their-laptop, because you don't want your first
experience to be a confusing dialog box asking you for a number you don't
know.
If we ever implement the firefox kiosk thing, autodetecting need to DHCP
reg and doing it via that would be awesome.
There are some upstream bug for LVM support
([https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lvm2/+bug/109957 109957],
[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/43453 43453), but
it's unclear to me to what extent this is being worked on. I'd prefer to
warn about LVM on the web page than to modify the installer to have a
warning, with the assumption that the partitioner doesn't make it easy to
shoot yourself in the foot by accident, but if that's not the case putting
a warning in the installer could make sense as a temporary measure.
The main reason that I didn't put in debathena-login is that there is no
real reason to prefer it to debathena-graphical-login if you have ubuntu-
desktop installed; I'm planning to add it as an "advanced option". I plan
to have both -graphical-login and -workstation as options down the road.
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/160#comment:1>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debian-Athena Project
