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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alec Warner wrote: |
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>> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on |
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>> thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation |
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>> process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? |
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>> Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? |
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>> 1.5) There is a hidden assumption here that image based installations |
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>> would not work for everyone (likely due to a lack of the 'right' |
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>> image; too old, wrong arch, etc...) |
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>> 2) Has anyone looked at just taking an existing installation framework |
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>> (d-i? kickstart?) and just making it run different stuff? I honestly |
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>> have not looked at either (someone else at work does that thank god) |
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>> but it can't be outside of the realm of impossibility... |
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> i dont particularly care what installer we utilize, it'd just be nice |
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> to have a helpful gui/curses based approach available as an option. i |
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> have toyed with anaconda in the past, but my personal experience has |
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> been that our gui python one was better. that and the insistence on |
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> redhat-only tools (like rpm) is obnoxious. |
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> -mike |
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RPM dependency has been moved to the yum module inside anaconda and |
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it's not required anymore. |
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Fabio Erculiani |
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http://lxnay.com |
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http://www.sabayon.org |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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