| 1 |
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:44:17PM -0400 or thereabouts, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
| 2 |
> Like I said, I'm definitely for it, provided there is a way to duplicate |
| 3 |
> the Gentoopix install onto a system with little to no work. Think |
| 4 |
> something along the lines of: |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> root@gentoopix # gentoopix-hdinstall |
| 7 |
> Do you need to partition your drives? (y/N) |
| 8 |
> What time zone are you in? |
| 9 |
> What username would you like? |
| 10 |
> What hostname would you like? |
| 11 |
> ... |
| 12 |
> Copying files... |
| 13 |
> |
| 14 |
> Something VERY simple that gets a system up VERY quickly. There's |
| 15 |
> nothing stopping a user from doing a normal stage1 or stage3 install |
| 16 |
> from the CD, but the ability to pop the CD in, answer a few questions, |
| 17 |
> and have the CD copy itself to the hard disk would be very beneficial |
| 18 |
> and would reduce the amount of complaints we will get for killing GRP. |
| 19 |
> Also, it allows for a network-less install. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Having been following what the -installer guys are working on, I'm fairly |
| 22 |
confident there could be a nice combo of Gentoopix + installer that does |
| 23 |
exactly that. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
--kurt |
Archives