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On Sunday 21 July 2002 20:08, Gaarde wrote: |
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|| Somewhere in the thread that speaks of a graphical installer mentioned |
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|| device-detection. |
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|| We can use this work elsewhere. Create 'sane defaults' for the kernel |
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|| .config ... selecting which nic, framebuffer, DRI, apic, mtrr, etc ... |
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|| ANYTHING that can be detected. As a part of the installer, have a |
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|| 'wizard' that walks one through the kernel configure/compile itself maybe? |
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Nope, we're using redhat's anaconda as base, that has autodetection and such, |
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and it's in python (i think). |
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But that's more davoid's work now, since i'm planning the GUI now. |
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Bart Verwilst |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Release Coordinator |
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Gent, Belgium |
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