Re: [Opencd-devel] Installer enhancement

[Martin S. <bud...@bu...>]

Most of the application installers do something similar to this
i.e. a disk space check etc.

I believe the best thing to do is to get a simple system
with a clear HTML front end working as 0.01 and then make incremental
upgrades.


On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:31:18AM -0500, Matt Tackett wrote:
> Not sure if this is posible from a technical standpoint with an HTML-based 
> installer, but can the installer be generated based on the hardware of the 
> user?  More clearly, could a small hardware check be run as the installer 
> is popping up and only allow the installation of those programs that the 
> users system can run.  Programs that were unable to be run wouldn't even 
> show up on on the installer in that users machine.  This would allow the 
> project to put (games) applications that might need special hardware 
> (games) or a higher system requirements (games) on the CD without 
> aggravating the end user (he wouldn't know what he was missing or spend 
> time installing programs he couldn't run).
> 
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