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Hi, |
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I was wondering about the installer which will eventually "appear" for gentoo; what features would everyone like? I |
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remember discussing this with Daniel a while ago; as far as I can remember the basic idea was as follows: |
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The user interface consisting of: |
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3 frames onscreen, the latter two being optional |
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- Main frame for the bulk of the interaction |
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- (read only?) Console at the bottom to show what is being done to your system as and when it happens; i.e. what you |
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type at the moment to install gentoo will appear here, if you want to see it? |
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- Split screen display with *usefull* context sensitive help in a frame on the left (should it be required) |
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and a few virtual terminals which are always useful ;) (respawning! I have seen distros where they don't which is |
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most irritating if you accidentally log out...) |
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The install process would probably be as follows: |
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- Boot from cd |
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- Edit partitions etc (front-end for GNUparted?) |
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- Copy across sys-base |
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- chroot and customise hostname etc |
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- setup networking |
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- download/install-from-cd optional packages |
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- setup users and groups |
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- reboot |
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Seems like a pretty normal install process to me, but then I thought a similar things for package systems until I came |
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across portage ;) Comments please |
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How would recovery work if there was a power cut half way through installation? I would like it to be able to pick up |
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from where it left off... |
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I think it would be nice to try and keep the heavily user-interactive things such as entering acount information all |
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in one place chronologically speaking, and then the system can be left to copy across things etc all at the same time. |
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On this note would it be better to ask for all of the input at once, cache it and *then* apply all of the changes? It |
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would be faster to setup imho that way. |
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- Tom |