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Walter, |
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Please check out the current installer project page at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ |
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If you can help out, hop on irc, server irc.gentoo.org (or irc.freenode.org), |
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channel #gentoo-installer |
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As for the anaconda port, I believe there will be some modules from anaconda |
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used in our installer, but nothing like what you see in the url that you |
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posted. The problem with using anaconda outright is that it is an RPM based |
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installer, and we're trying to install a portage based system. Plus, the |
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design of the official Gentoo installer (see the docs at the url above) will |
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be more flexible, allowing for automated installs, text based, graphical |
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based, etc.. |
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Cheers! |
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-Corey |
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On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08:42 am, Walter White wrote: |
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> Hi John and all, |
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> I was hoping to have a gentoo installer for the end of this summer (I have |
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> been working on my own C++ installer intermittently and it is near |
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> finished, but command line only). I was looking at work some other |
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> gentooers have done, and there was one that caught my eye: |
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> http://gentoo.vidalinux.com/?q=node/view/35 |
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> This project is based from anaconda. I think we could use this as a base |
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> and change it to fit the Gentoo framework. I originally thought writing |
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> from scratch might be a better idea, but they have done a lot of the stuff |
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> we need to do. We just need to change package selection/installation and |
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> remove all RedHat references. |
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> To keep everyone on the same page, we should use an IDE like KDevelop. |
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> Whoever is the project manager should assign us individual tasks so we are |
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> all working on different areas to keep development going or maybe we can |
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> select ones ourselves and just post a comment here or something to let |
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> others know. I think that patching the installer rather than a total |
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> rewrite will save us time in re-inventing the wheel. Would you guys want |
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> to vote on this - should we use the Anaconda installer or rewrite |
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> everything from scratch? |
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> Walter |
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