13 Jun
2009
13 Jun
'09
4 a.m.
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 01:30 -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Okay, but my point is more that if I'm doing anything more complex than
setting up a desktop I don't actually *want* the installer to try and
figure out what I want - I just want a very bare machine working with
vi, ssh and a network connection and the rest can go hang.
If I *am* setting up a desktop I use the Ubuntu livecd and rattle
through the graphical installer in two minutes, then spend the ten
minutes it takes actually installing poking about on the 'net.
Gordon
Suits me fine. I'd rather not have to pick
my way through the
installer's brain-dead interface to set up things like LVM when I can
just get a minimal install up and configure LVM myself later. Since I
only ever use LVM for /home/ then not having it before the packages are
installed is no great loss...
Some of us have more complicated configurations, and it's significantly
more difficult to get them set up without the installer having support
for them. But LVM is only one of many things they're dropping installer
support for. In general, text-mode install looks like it is on the way
out, and I'm complaining much more about that than about specific
support for LVM.