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Does the current installer ask you in the middle?
I never noticed...
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The text installer does a lot.
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zmjjmz
wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 21:49
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The questions should be asked before.
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Agreed. The installer should ask all questions at the beginning, then install at once. At minimum, it should ask most questions first, then save any additional questions for the end. There should never be a question in the middle holding up the install.
That is the windows way, it shouldn't be the ubuntu way.
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glotz
wrote on the 3 Apr 08 at 23:58
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Oh dear, it's been so long since my install I had all but forgotten this silliness! Thanks for reminding me! I really hate having to provide my box TLC all the way thru the installation...
A HUEG +1
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flip314
wrote on the 4 Apr 08 at 04:35
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a related (but not duplicate) idea for update-manager/dist-upgrade is #5180
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that would be really great.
ask all installation questions, then install.
after - when everything is installed and the computer is rebooted into ubuntu, ask for user region, name, login, etc. (like on the dell ubuntu machines)
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Agreed.
But in the summary at the end the user should have the possibility to change things again (de/install optional packages etc). Could image my grandma installing it... since at the beginning it would say ("except for partitioning, other changes can be made at the end of installation") she would click "ok, install with default" and call me while it installs...
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benimnetz wrote:
>ask all installation questions, then install.
>after - when everything is installed and the computer is >rebooted into ubuntu, ask for user region, name, login, etc. >(like on the dell ubuntu machines)
Why not ask region, name, login also inside the installer?
fwolfste wrote:
>>But in the summary at the end the user should have the possibility to change things again
Sounds ok!
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I agree- this is really annoying, and should apply to the Update Manager too. I really hate it when I start an install or update, and walk away to do other things or even go to bed for the night, only to find out it stopped to ask a question after a few minutes and has been sitting there for hours.
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I would love to see this go upstream to Debian.
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Ubiquity never bugs me for anything when it gets to the bit where it actually installs. The only dialog is the 'hey I'm done, wanna reboot?' one.
The only peeve I have is I need Sun Java, and unfortunately it is encumbered (the free ones aren't quite there, and besides it's for uni so I don't want to deviate from their reference platform). When installing the package it needs me to agree to a license: right in the middle of the overall process.
The thing is, update manager/synaptic/apt would need to know in advance of all packages that questions will be asked by them. I'm not sure this is very feasible.
All ranting aside: if users really are experiencing mid-install questions they should be moved to the very start/end.
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byrd
wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 00:07
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XP may do that but Vista is easily the easiest to install out of Vista/Leopard/Ubuntu (I've installed all 3 too many times :
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SGusto
wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 13:58
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Not sure but I think the Kanotix installer asks all the questions first.
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Endolith
wrote on the 25 Apr 08 at 03:41
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Or ask at the end.
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Iulian
(Ubuntu developer)
wrote on the 10 May 08 at 13:32
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Plus one from me.
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1ace
wrote on the 28 Jul 08 at 17:41
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another idea is to ask required questions at the beginning, then launch the install, and while the system is installing, ask for configuration questions, like the time/zone, username/login/password/etc.
it would speed up the installation, or at least give the illusion to the user it's faster
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Agreed, plus one, it bugs me so much how you set windows "off on it's mission" by clicking through a ton of dialogs, you go and do stuff, and find out for 20 minutes it has been sitting, asking you something useless in the middle of the installation, like what time zone you are located in. Upon clicking it, "hang on, about 20 more minutes remaining". How annoying is that!
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Plus one- you should be able to go away from the computer for x minutes while the whole OS is installed.
It's stupid to have to wait for a x/5 time, inputting data, waiting for a x/5 time, inputting data, waiting for... etc.
That just wastes time, and make you think that the installation process is over when it isn't. Scratch that, a BIG plus one!
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