Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Future improvement ideas. (resend/new thread :)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 
>> Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
>>  > Bruce Smith wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> The advanced user would still be able create their own custom
>>  >> configuration on floppy, just like they do now.  It wouldn't effect
>>  >> the power user at all.
>>  >>
>>  >> Thoughts?  Am I missing anything?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > How to detect an empty floppy, it could also just be the case that
>>  > the current floppy got bad sectors and now we are going to overwrite
>>  > it. This would need some protection, eg. asking the user for
>>  > permission to go on.
>>  >
>>  > Why not write a simple "create a basic config" script that can be
>>  > run when there's either no config or a broken one available.
>>
>> I agree with Friedl, it's better to create a basic configuration script.
>> It would be the same functionality, except the user has to start it
>> manually.
> 
> 
> I also ment to offer the user the option to run this script when
> devil can not load config from a floppy. So starting it up without
> a floppy, creating a basic config, booting the system and then
> writing the config with save_config.

Even better, let's do both.

Heiko