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i've done a bit of work on partitioning from the concepts to using |
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cfdisk in a script with a basic UI. no python-based work as i don't |
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know python. in anycase i'm interested in seeing what you guys can |
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come up with as many distros have terrible "interesting" partitioning |
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support. |
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I have access to a number of SPARC computers as well. possibly for |
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testing. i know sparc uses a lot of odd stuff. |
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:34:27 -0400, Eric Sammer <esammer@g.o> wrote: |
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> All: |
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> Here's a quick update of installer status... |
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> - There is a push to release a user testable version of the installer |
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> for the 2005.0 LiveCD. This is something we are currently working with |
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> (and will continue to work with) the RelEng folks to make happen. This |
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> is obviously contingent on even more hard work by not just the official |
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> Gentoo developers, but the unofficial ones as well (which is everyone |
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> else, in case you weren't catching the underlying statement). ;) |
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> |
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> - Partitioning is still a headache, no two ways about it. A number of |
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> people are doing their own research into this topic, independently. This |
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> is good as different people have different ideas of how this should work |
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> and hopefully we'll be able to find what works faster this way. Thanks |
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> to those people working on this. |
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> - Architecture support - a touchy subject to be sure. To clarify what |
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> people may or may not have heard, it's true: we're concentrating on the |
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> x86 version of the installer BUT this is because the current team is |
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> made up of people with primarily x86 experience. We are NOT giving up on |
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> other archs. What we are doing is trying to make the best of the |
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> resources we have. If you want to see the arch of your choice released |
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> sooner, we encourage you to get involved! |
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> |
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> - There has been a lot of talk about Sun hardware and the size |
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> limitations on netboot images. Netbooting is a requirement for a lot of |
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> SPARC and MIPS based hardware so we need to find people who can do |
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> research and testing on a workable solution to getting SPARC / MIPS |
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> hardware to a point at which control can be passed to the installer on a |
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> live file system (similar to x86 hardware after booting from a cd). A |
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> number of other installers have worked around this (or made it work |
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> somehow) so we just need to find the proper resources to work through this. |
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> |
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> - We need people with python experience to work on arch templates for |
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> specific architectures, review code, test, debug, improve, and document |
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> code. Get involved! Yea, I mean you. |
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> - As always, we're looking for ways to improve what we have to make it |
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> more robust and flexible. Comments (that are respective and |
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> constructive) are invited and always welcome. |
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> Anyone who is interested in getting involved may speak to me (esammer) |
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> or any of the following people in #gentoo-installer (freenode): klieber, |
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> spyderous, tseng, samyron, codeman, or npmccallum. Those of you who |
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> aren't Gentoo devs can look over the code from the ViewCVS interface |
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> (see gentoo.org) in the gentoo/src/installer directory. |
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> Regards. |
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> -- |
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> E. Sammer |
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> esammer@g.o |
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> Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org |
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