On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Mark Brinicombe wrote:

> > I think that we should have a nice menu based installer where you have sets
> > in groups so you can say select X apps group and then choose which programs
> > you want, deselect any you don't want anymore and the installer then goes off
> > and does it's stuff.
> 
> We are working on this. The CDROM releases can run X11 straight from CDROM
> which allows for X based installers. The only thing we need to sort out is what
> to do for swap space during this time. machines with 16MB+ would not have a
> problem but less than 16MB would need swap run run the installer under X.
> During an installation swap space is not viaable until the the HD has been
> partitioned.
> 
> We have the fix, just need to code it.

What the Red Hat installer does is to take you through the initial stages
of installation (partitioning the disk, initialising swap etc.) in a
text-based non-X environment. As soon as it's configured the swap it boots
into X and starts initialising the filesystems, prompting for sets etc.
Maybe this would be a good model to use ? 

amit