Message-ID: <3ABE71BC.7070609@meganesia.int.gu.edu.au> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:31:24 +1000 From: Peter Becker <pbecker@meganesia.int.gu.edu.au> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Comments on installation process
Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
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>> 3) A thing I always wonder why nobody does this: wouldn't it be useful
>> to have two or three threads in the setup? After the partitions are
>> choosen the computer has a lot of stuff to do _and_ has to ask a lot of
>> question, which means a lot of waiting in a sequential installation.
>> Wouldn't it be nice if those two things can be done at one time? The
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> No, the user should be able to make a complete setup before we make
> anything which is not revertable.
Sorry, but I can't see this rule followed in the current version. One of
the first things you do is partitioning the disks and then formatting
them. I can't see how this might be revertable (at least not the
formatting). And the whole network/printer/sound config is done after
all the packages are installed.
>> PS: something I'd like to have in a running system is more control on
>> services from a high viewpoint. For example I'd like to turn HTTPD
>> on/off with just a switch, maybe even with the option of
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> Use the YaST2 controlcenter and the rc.config editor.
I can't find this option in both of them (the YaST2 control center and
the rc.config file -- is there another rc.config editor than YaST1 or
vi?). And honestly: if you look at the YaST2 network icons: do you think
it is easy to understand? I think the configuration options should come
from the services, not the programs, i.e. there should be an option to
turn on/off and restrict ftp, http or telnet access not configuring
inetd, httpd and the hosts.* files.
But I should stop here -- it started as thinking aloud and gets into
complaining now. I just hoped you liked my ideas and would implement
them, but as long as nobody else does I'll use SuSE again :-)
Peter
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