Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Antoni Grzymala <awaria@××××××××××.pl>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based)
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:06:32
Message-Id: 20110210100441.GA29921@lemongrass.antoszka.pl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Installer (text-based) by Konstantin Tokarev
1 Konstantin Tokarev dixit (2011-02-10, 13:01):
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5 > 10.02.2011, 12:56, "Antoni Grzymala" <awaria@××××××××××.pl>:
6 > > Fabian Groffen dixit (2011-02-10, 10:39):
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8 > >>  On 10-02-2011 07:54:16 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
9 > >>>  The only way to avoid epic failures is to keep the whole thing simple,
10 > >>>  without trying to fit everybody. An installer that would cover a
11 > >>>  standard install, newbie-oriented scenario would be definitely good.
12 > >>>  Experienced people won't use it anyway, so why bothering trying to
13 > >>>  cover their needs, it would be a straight way to fail again.
14 > >>  Just FYI:
15 > >>  Interestingly, it were the power/experienced users that requested a
16 > >>  simple installer, because they got tired of copy&paste-ing the same
17 > >>  commands from the manual over and over again.
18 > >
19 > > Actually power users install Gentoo from memory...
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21 > dd if=/dev/brain of=/dev/hda1
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23 > :)
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25 bs=512 count=∞ :)
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