Re: install/47038: installing from a USB stick image is unnecessarily confusing

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/47038; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/47038: installing from a USB stick image is unnecessarily 
confusing
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:16:29 +0100

 On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:55:02AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR install/47038; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: install/47038: installing from a USB stick image is 
 > unnecessarily confusing
 > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:53:14 +0200
 > 
 >  On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:00:01AM +0000, dholland%netbsd.org@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >  > Shouldn't install media that come with installation sets choose their
 >  > own installation sets by default?
 >  
 >  Yes, I think both on CDs and USB images we should pass an option to sysinst
 >  making it skip the distmedium menu and go straight to get_via_cdrom() (with
 >  included magic to find the cd drive used) or get_via_localdir() in the usb
 >  case.
 
 It would be better to show the menu, but have the normal default
 item already selected.
 Then you can boot sysinst of CDROM, but download the sets via ftp (etc).
 
        David
 
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 David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost