Re: Preparing new distribution...

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

> 1) move /home/root to /root

Raah no! Umm why not simply create a link?

And also think of a way to run fsck at a more appropriate moment than is
happening in the current kgmd..:))

> >5) allow the filesystems  like /home, /usr etc to be installed on
> >   separate partitions by the installation script.
> At this point, it will confuse more people than anything, but why not.
> If a users really wants to do that, he can do it manually after, but
> well, will need some hack in several files.

Again, isn't the task of using more partitions for these "partial
filesystems" a simple question of a few links? At least that's how I would
do it.

Here's another consideration:

Take good care with documenting it all. The major disadvantage of an
install script is that it does everything without the user having a clue
about what's going on. In the end you have a huge unix filesystem and no
idea what it does, so it should be very clear to the user (where to find
out) what it's all about. In the ideal case, it can be installed without
any mint/unix knowledge (which kemd would be as well, if it would run
without probs), but after that, the user should be left with a document
structure that starts at a simple level and makes it easy to find out
specialised stuff.

The current documentation is very thorough, but still most of the manpages
are only understandable if you already understood half of them, plus you
have no idea where to start. Well a .hyp file on how to use man would be a
nice start :)

Maurits.

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          Maurits van de Kamp (maurits@bassment.demon.nl)

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