From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: RE: Elks Distribution Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 16:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020528163025.M40278-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux 8086 Maybe it's just me, or maybe it's just because I am the only one using Slackware, but I'm used to booting off of floppy, getting a "login" prompt, logging in as root with no password, running fdisk, and then running setup from the root floppy. I guess I don't see any reason to automate this process, it seems simple (printed instructions on the screen) and it lets you do more than just run though the install script if there are problems or whatever. The setup is perty simple, you just step though a few menus and select your source, destination, keyboard, modem (if you want), etc. Can such a thing be done for ELKS? I suspect maybe curses or something is used for the menu system, don't know how much that hurts us. Just a thought....it seems like if nothing else that would be a good starting point, and would avoid problems like what hard drive partition to use (as you're prompted). Dan