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While I think an X based installer would be nice, I think we might benefit |
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from first doing up a cli based installer first... at the very least, we |
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would need a cli portage viewer/manager, which would be a nice package on |
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it's own... |
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Something also I thought about (and have been playing with), is having |
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essentially a two stage process for the installer- basically everything prior |
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to the chroot, and then everything after. Why? Well, it would be nice to |
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have the first half of the installer handle all the fdisking, untarring, etc. |
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>From there, it chroots, emerge syncs and emerge portages, then pulls down the |
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newest version of itself, and runs that. |
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>From there, if we wanted we could probably setup some simple equivalent of a |
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quicky binary x server/svgalib for a x based installer. Meanwhile, if we |
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have at least a basic cli installer setup, that would be immediately useful |
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for the cd's, and w/ an update capability, we could push a graphical |
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installer down to the user once we have it ready... |
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Thoughts? |
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~harring |
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bdharring@××××.edu |
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On Sunday 13 April 2003 04:30 am, Derek J. Belrose wrote: |
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> The only real way I can think of is to do some checks on if X is |
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> running, and if it is, use a graphical toolkit for X...if not, use a |
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> terminal based kit like ncurses. |
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> I like this idea. I should download a liveCD to throw some code on and |
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> do tests. |
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> Is anyone against pyGTK or something like it? pyQT? wxPython? |
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> |
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> Is anyone against python? :) |
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> Cedric Veilleux wrote: |
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> >Why not simply use gentoo's livecd? |
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> >The livecd can boot the user into a fully loaded console or X workstation, |
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> >with all the tools needed. |
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> >The installer could be an additional tool on the liveCD system.. Anybody |
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> > knows a GUI abstration toolkit that can generate either terminal based or |
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> > X based interface, depending on what's available at runtime? |
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> >This way the same installer could be used if X is not working or can't be |
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> >used. |
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> >In both environment (terminal / X), multitasking would be possible so |
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> >experienced users could perform manual tasks while the installer is |
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> > waiting for input.. |
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> >Just my 2 cents, |
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> > |
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> >Cedric |
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