Comments on: Good news, bad news

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:55:36 +0000

zmjjmz: You're right, and I know it. I should probably investigate other ways of installing from the live environment. But I think the suggestion to use and alternate install is still best. So I don't know how much time I'm going to burn chasing ubiquity's bad behavior. But my curiosity is piqued. ... andrewsomething: I've thought about that, but for some people that almost seems more difficult. Ubuntulite was going in that direction for a long time, but people wanted an installation CD. So to be honest, I was inclined to follow suit. And since it was really a way for me to make a clean installation of a system I prefer, I thought this to be a better route.

By: andrewsomething

andrewsomething — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:48:59 +0000

One idea you might want to think about is building a meta-package and hosting it in a PPA on Laucnhpad. While doing all of your specific configuration changes would be hard, just making one that installs a functioning minimal GTK1.2 environment over an Ubuntu command line install wouldn’t be hard at all…

By: zmjjmz

zmjjmz — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:36:04 +0000

I really don’t think you should use Ubiquity. It’s just not good for its intended audience.