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Around a week and a half ago, I apparently went insane and decided to rewrite |
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GLI in sh. The goal was to create something more like what the installer was |
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*supposed* to be. I've apparently succeeded. QuickStart is meant to be closer to |
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Kickstart or Jumpstart (do you see a pattern with the name? :P) than GLI or |
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other single user installers. GLI was meant to be like this originally, but |
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somehow (really, codeman and I are to blame) got off track and became an |
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installer for single users. |
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I've written all my code targetting ash using posix sh, so that it can be run |
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from a busybox environment, such as a netboot image. I've been doing most of my |
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testing with bash, but the 1 or 2 tests I've run with ash were successful. |
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Here's a list of what it currently does: |
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* Perform basic sanity checks of the config |
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* Runs a pre-install script |
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* Partitioning from a blank disk with a msdos disklabel (uses sfdisk) |
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* Creates md raid arrays |
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* Formats specified devices with specified filesystems |
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* Mounts specified devices at specified mountpoints with specified mountopts |
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* Mounts specified network shares at ... (see above :P) |
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* Fetch and unpack a stage3 tarball |
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* Install a portage tree (via sync, webrsync, or fetching/unpacking a tarball) |
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* Builds a kernel using genkernel with either a default or a custom config |
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* Installs logger/crond and adds to default runlevel |
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* Installs and configured selected bootloader (currently only grub) |
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* Installs extra packages |
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* Runs a post-install script |
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* Automatically run pre-/post-functions defined in the config (it's a sh file) |
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Here's what it currently doesn't do (automatically): |
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* Setup /etc/conf.d/net |
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* Setup /etc/fstab |
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* Setup /etc/make.conf |
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* Partition from an existing disk layout (and it never will) |
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* A bunch more things that I can't think of right now |
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The source is available via SVN at <https://agaffney.org/repos/quickstart/>. An |
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example configuration is available at |
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<https://agaffney.org/repos/quickstart/trunk/doc/profile_example.sh>. A current |
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snapshot of the repo is always available at |
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<http://agaffney.org/quickstart.tar.bz2> (the post-commit hook creates the |
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tarball). The repo also supports anonymous checkout. |
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Now, here's the part where you get to voice your opinions. What features would |
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you like to see in QuickStart? Keep in mind that anything "exotic" will probably |
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not be supported in an automatic fashion, since you can accomplish pretty much |
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*anything* with the pre-/post-hooks for each install step. |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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Today's lesson in political correctness: "Go asphyxiate on a phallus" |
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