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talk to igli on freenode as he's the author of a Gentoo based installer |
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named Gen2, perhaps he will be interested in this project. You can |
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checkout current sources at |
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git@213.131.245.114:gent2.git. |
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I hope this won't be another GLI failed project but i have faith it |
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won't. |
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On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 21:18 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> This is a post-FOSDEM call for people with interest for a Gentoo |
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> text-based installer. |
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> |
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> If you are a developer, or Gentoo user, and feel like spending some time |
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> on (possibly) creating a text-based installer for Gentoo in cooperation |
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> with others, please contact me (off-list). |
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> |
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> During FOSDEM, I've been asked by a developer to share efforts on a |
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> text-based installer for Linux distributions. There is a fair share of |
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> work already done, but for the Gentoo case, certain pieces will be |
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> missing. I am looking for someone to take the lead in using the |
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> existing efforts to craft a scenario for the installer that performs the |
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> Gentoo Linux installation e.g. from the livecd. |
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> |
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> I do not wish to start a discussion on wether or not an installer makes |
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> sense. I do not wish to replace the installation handbook at all |
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> either. It has been brought to my attention that an installer (that |
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> also can be pre-configured with the right options) is useful for certain |
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> scenarios, and I would like to give it a shot to see how easy such thing |
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> could be provided. |
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> |
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> The installer in mind here, would also possibly work for Gentoo Prefix |
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> bootstraps, for which we would use a bootstrap cd. |
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