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On 08/18/10 21:19, Peter Abrahamsen wrote: |
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> On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:39 AM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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>> Well, for Windows you might be in some luck (thanks to mduft): |
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>> What does exist already is (not a script, but) an ISO image (DVD) with |
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>> some nice |
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>> GUI installer, that can set up both Interix and Gentoo Prefix on your |
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>> Windows box. |
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>> You can find it via http://prefix.gentoo.org/bootstrap.xml |
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> Bootstrapping is about as much fun as standing in line at the post |
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> office. If Prefix would like to compete with fink, darwinports, or |
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> whatever else people are using on various platforms, then the experience |
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> for the first-time user should be as easy as what Elmar describes. I |
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> can't think of any reason it shouldn't be that easy–pretty much everyone |
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> runs bootstrap-prefix.sh the same way, except when they copy the |
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> commands wrong or out of order. |
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Well, yes - there is another thing, called prefix-launcher[1]. |
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It does provide a script called eprefix-bootstrap[2]. |
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Although we use it here to bootstrap on aix/hpux/linux/solaris/interix, |
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its documentation could need some love: In the early days there was some |
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wiki, but I didn't manage to get this content to SF's new wiki system. |
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[1] http://prefix-launcher.sourceforge.net/ |
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[2] https://prefix-launcher.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/prefix-launcher/eprefix-bootstrap/trunk/ |
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/haubi/ |
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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