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Installation Party



Hi,
Many people on this list believe in Linux enough to dedicate a
significant amount of time to help other people install it on their
computers. It was heartwarming to see this last friday.

On the other hand, I came away from the "Installation Party" with
the feeling that the problem with Linux is that it needs an
installation party and a cadre of dedicated volunteers.

Wouldn't it be better if we had an installation program that did
the following:

1. Spoke Hebrew, Arabic, English or whatever your preference is.
2. Made a sincere effort to find your distibution medium for you
   i.e. could deal with any CDROM, IDE/SCSI disk, network card
3. Walked you through defrag and repartition giving you two or three
   reasonable suggestions based on a calculation of your current
   disk usage.
4. Presented lilo installation in a way that newbies can understand.
5. Configured XF86Config for you after probing your graphic card.

This is what Window95 does (except for repartition, where it assumes
that you don't want any other OS), can't we do at least as well?

 - yba

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