That Dialog based installer system is dangerous because it's so easy to make a mistake, one wrong keystroke and there is no going back, so if you accidentally press enter on any of the sections, you're stuck with whatever was selected in that section. This one part of slackware that should have been fixed using different tools long ago, but I guess patrick figures its not broken, so don't fix it. I was thinking, all of the content that goes into those dialog screens are stored in files, so it should be possible to read those files and generate an alternate install method. It would be nice to have a script that makes a file containing all of the install choices, similar to the kernel .config, and another script that does the entire install with one command. Then you could also have a default install config, and possibly even launch that automatically from a special boot disk. I may consider working on something like that some day but I have too many other things I'd like to tackle first. -- Doug
