Re: Internet Explorer emulator?

houghi wrote:

Will Honea wrote:
The recovery partition is pretty much a scripted install of the system
from custom images.

And you do not like working from images? Oh boy. When I was at FOSDEM
openSUSE told me they were intending to use images for instalations. I
was the only person objecting and I have not kept up if they were going
to do that or not.

My objection was that I want to have complete control over the
installation if I do wish to have that. I do not want to install first
what THEY tell me and then change everything afterwards.

When asked if this would be a smil irritation are a big problem, I
answerd that it would be a big irritation.
Again, I have not followed it up wether it will be done or not. I just
hope it won't happen.

There are images and then there are images. With the one I was working on
yesterday (Vista from a Lenovo desktop) the recovery files are images of
the CD contents which have to be unpacked then the unpacked image consists
of compressed .cab files which have to be further unpacked - too much beer
drinking time while I wait makes the screen grow fuzzy...

As for control, I did modify a few of the scripts. Turns out that the step
(in this particular recovery set) that takes over and reformats the whole
disk required a two line change to the script to get it to play nice and
use the existing C: drive (active primary partition) and leave the rest of
the disk alone. I think I see the setting in another script that
specifies "unattended" operation - that may also be the key to getting a
fully attended install so that I can control the options but I haven't had
the motivation to mess with it yet. I may have to as I'm getting more and
more calls to rescue clients from some of the latest fixpacks MS has put
out <g>.

--
Will Honea
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