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The installer team is proud to announce the release of version 0.2 of the |
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Gentoo Linux Installer. There have been many improvements over the 0.1 ("alpha") |
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release including many new features and many annoying bugs squished. |
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(appologies in advance if gmail kills my formatting) |
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New features |
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* Sub-progress bar (shows the progress of the individual install step) |
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* Tarball extraction progress (shows how far along it is extracting a tarball) |
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* New code for dynamic-stage3 that cuts the time in half along with not |
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cluttering up your new install with binary packages. |
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* Optional verbose logging for debug purposes. |
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* Notification of which packages are available in GRP form (gli-dialog only) |
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* More graceful failure cleanup (now unmounts mounted partitions) (gtkfe only) |
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* Pre-configured xorg.conf is now copied to the new system when xorg-x11 is |
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installed. |
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* If selecting a graphical desktop xdm is set to boot automatically in |
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standard mode (prompt in advanced) (gli-dialog only) |
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* Automatic snapshot/make.conf screens for dynamic stage3 installs (this is |
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necessary to prevent b0rkage) |
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Bugs fixed since 0.1 |
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* NTFS/FAT32 code problem that left you with an empty partition table |
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* attempting to mount unallocated space |
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* Various bootloader bugs |
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Issues not resolved in 0.2 but fixed in CVS |
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* Mounting windows partitions can cause filesystem format issues (fat16/32 |
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instead of vfat) |
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Along with the new version of the installer, there is also a new LiveCD (extra |
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thanks to wolf-31o2 for that). Some of the changes include: |
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* Gimp and bittorrent have been added |
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* Fixes to allow Gnome to install properly via GRP |
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Issues not yet resolved |
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* gli-dialog error cleanup (should be an option) |
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* bootloader customizability. currently the boot device is determined by |
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/boot (or / if no /boot) and the MBR of that device is written to instead |
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of whatever device boots first. This is currently being fixed. |
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* internationalization support in gli-dialog is still only at "ready to go" |
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status |
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Coming soon to a LiveCD near you! (i.e. what to expect from 0.3) |
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* Dynamic/virtual hard-drives! You can define partitions with percentages. |
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* A brand new FE! Webgli, a web-browser-based FE, combines aspects from the |
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previous two FEs into a new and simple interface for creating install |
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profiles. |
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* Mastergli (TEMPORARY NAME), a mass-installation utility, which will be |
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combined with webgli to help create profiles. This finally addresses the |
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second half of the Gentoo Installer's project goals. |
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It will allow users |
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to PXE boot client machines that will be detected by |
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the mastergli server |
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(these can also be defined manually) and specify |
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which install profile to |
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use for that machine. This lets you create template |
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machines such as |
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"image-server" or "mail-server" or |
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"normal-workstation" for example and |
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pick and choose boxes and profiles. It then will |
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spawn off the selected |
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installs and provide status updates via the same web |
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interface. The |
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mastergli settings will of course be able to be |
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saved/loaded with a master |
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profile XML file. Since this interface will work |
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remotely (if allowed) and |
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in links2, it is not likely that there will be a |
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command-line version of |
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mastergli anytime soon. Mastergli utilizes |
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SecureXMLRPC code from samyron |
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as well as backend code from chotchki and of course agaffney. |
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Enjoy your new release! |
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-Codeman |
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