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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:58:46 +0200 |
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Bart Verwilst <verwilst@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ugh.. Ok.. over to plan B. :o) |
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> I'll try to take a look at the code, davoid, could i count on you to guide |
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> me into this project? |
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> Ok. If somebody is willing to sign up for the installer creation, mail me |
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> in person (again, sorry :o( ) with the first part of the subject |
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> "INSTALLER", that way i can sort this stuff, and keep em in a seperate |
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> folder, so i don't lose it :o) I can use quite some help :o) |
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> See ya! |
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I won't mind the abandon of a graphical installer... |
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I don't think we need it, neither do newbies. I'd rather think the efforts |
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should go to the documentation (various parts of it) which must stay |
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up-to-date with the development of gentoo. (I remember some newbies having |
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an issue with the fdisk type numbers of partition, entering 0x83 rather than |
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83 for example.) This is true for the installation instructions as well as |
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the devel docs which should follow portage, ebuilds policies, evolutions. |
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The installation is, as it is, quite simple and its ability to be used in a |
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chrooted environment from another installation (or another distribution) is |
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unvaluable. By all means, this feature must remain intact. |
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For those who can't afford to have two distributions installed (they will be |
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less and less) or that are just installing gentoo as their first linux |
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distribution, what is sorely needed in the isos right now is some other |
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means to connect to internet, pppoe, pptp, isdn... |
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A propos : I had patched the small 1.2 iso adding pppoe support (rp-pppoe |
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binaries and instructions) a few weeks ago, I added (eugenesan asked me to |
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help him to do that) pptp support a few days ago. Iso, containing only ix86 |
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stage 1 for gentoo 1.2 is there |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ |
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gentoo-pppoe-pptp.iso |
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You could have a look there too : |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8805 |
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Right now, I've no idea if this second iso works or not, nobody having |
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reported about it (But the first did, that I'm sure). If you're willing to |
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test it, please report and tell me (on the forums or to my email) if it |
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works for you or not. (Does it boot ? (hope so !) Were you able to initiate |
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internet connection ? What about the installation instructions ?) |
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-- |
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Pierre-Henri Jondot <Pierre-Henri.Jondot@×××××××.fr> |
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Page perso : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/phj |
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