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Subject: Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years
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Robert Watson wrote:
> My 
> primary concern about some of these replacement installer projects is 
> that they've placed a strong focus on making them graphical -- I 
> actually couldn't care less about GUIs (and I think they actually hurt 
> my configurations, since I use serial consoles a lot), but what I do 
> want is a very tight and efficient install process, which I feel 
> sysinstall does badly on (not just for the reasons you specify).

Hmm, how should a tight and efficient installation process look like in 
your opinion? And what are the other points that are bad in systinstall?

Regards,
   Lothar