From 11b68c90cd89288906c595d5c31a0413ed8a496f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathieu Othacehe Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:10:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'TODO'. * TODO (Installer): New section. --- TODO | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 3a8a77b145..3c7ae6ef6c 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #+STARTUP: content hidestars Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès +Copyright © 2019 Mathieu Othacehe Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright @@ -83,3 +84,38 @@ Problems include that current glibc releases do not build on GNU/Hurd. In addition, there haven’t been stable releases of GNU Mach, MiG, and Hurd, which would be a pre-condition. +* Installer +** Fix impossibility to restart on error after cow-store has been started +See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html. +- Force reboot upon installer failure +- Unshare the installer process +- Run the installer process in a separate namespace +** Partitioning +*** Add RAID support +*** Add more partitioning schemes +The actual schemes are taken from Debian Installer but some are not +implemented yet: like "Separate partitions for /home /var and /tmp". +*** Replace wait page "Partition formating is in progress, please wait" +Create a new waiting page describing what's being done: + +[ 20% ] +Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda2 ... + +[ 40% ] +Running mkfs.ext4 on /dev/sda3 ... + +** Desktop environments +*** Allow for no desktop environments +Propose to choose between "headless server" and "lightweight X11" in a new +page. +*** Add services selection feature +Add a services page to the configuration. Ask for services to be installed +like SSH, bluetooth, TLP in a checkbox list? +** Locale and keymap +*** Try to guess user locale and keymap by probing BIOS or HW (dmidecode) +** Timezone +*** Regroup everything in one single page +Under the form: +(UTC + 1) Europe/Paris +(UTC + 2) Africa/Cairo +...