Written by Jimmyfj the 12 Jan 10 at 16:35.

Sabayon GNU/Linux has this neat feature of upgrading the installer before proceeding with the installation itself. We need a similar feature in the installer for all Alpha/Beta/RC releases to make life easier for the community of Beta-testers.

We know that crashes will occur in the test period and to save people from having to create new install cd's with the latest release this could be done via the installer once the existing Alpha or Beta release is booted.

An extra menu-point with the opportunity to update/upgrade the installer to ensure the install of the latest release is installed. It's double work if one first have to install say the Alpha 3 release only to have half the files written over by newer files. The job of sorting files is thus a job for the installer, not the user.

To do this there could be produced a net-install-cd only for use by the beta-tester community. This net-installer should be able to fetch the latest files for download.

I'd rather sit and wait for the install to finish than stare at a graphical interface kept alive by movement of the mouse to prevent the screen saver from activating every five minute.

With a net-install for beta-testers we will also benefit from even more users participation.

Sabayon GNU/Linux has this neat feature of upgrading the installer before proceeding with the installation itself. We need a similar feature in the installer for all Alpha/Beta/RC releases to make life easier for the community of Beta-testers. We know that crashes will occur in the test period and to save people from having to create new install cd's with the latest release this could be done via the installer once the existing Alpha or Beta release is booted. An extra menu-point with the opportunity to update/upgrade the installer to ensure the install of the latest release is installed. It's double work if one first have to install say the Alpha 3 release only to have half the files written over by newer files. The job of sorting files is thus a job for the installer, not the user. To do this there could be produced a net-install-cd only for use by the beta-tester community. This net-installer should be able to fetch the latest files for download. I'd rather sit and wait for the install to finish than stare at a graphical interface kept alive by movement of the mouse to prevent the screen saver from activating every five minute. With a net-install for beta-testers we will also benefit from even more users participation.