John on S8

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:47:30AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:22:08PM +0800, John wrote:
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>>>The assumption computers clocks are set to UTC is unsound.
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>>The defaults are oriented toward a system where Ubuntu is the only installed
>>operating system (hence the "erase entire disk" default as well), where UTC
>>is a reasonable choice.
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>I wonder if we could use the other-installed-operating-system facilities
>in d-i to decide whether to ask this question. While it's a sane default
>for the situation where Ubuntu's the only installed OS, it's an insane
>default when you're dual-booting to Windows, and pretty arguable when
>you're dual-booting to other Linux systems. Since the facilities exist
>to inspect the situation, we aren't constrained to picking one default.
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I'm not dual booting; for reasons outlined in another I think it's wrong 
in every circumstance.


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>>>Why ask about configuring ppp during boot? We're installing from CD.
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>>Agreed, we shouldn't be asking this question when installing from CD.
>>Colin, is this trivial to fix?
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>We ask this question for exactly the same reason that we configure
>networking during installation rather than leaving it to the user to set
>it up with the GNOME tools after installation: it allows us to make a
>best effort to download security updates at install time rather than
>potentially installing something insecure out of the box and hoping that
>the user will update later.
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>It isn't asked if you have some other network connection configured.
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Check if there's a modem?