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