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Oh sweet! Is this going to be in 1.4 x86 for sure? I like the idea of |
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autoinstall (or unattended.txt as well all know :), and the abstraction |
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of architecture-dep into the one class. |
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Do you have any screenshots of it handy? Does it follow the install |
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manual's steps pretty closely? What kind of control do we have at |
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different stages? (i.e. making partitions) |
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I'm excited... |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Nicholas Henke [mailto:roughneck@g.o] |
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> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:01 AM |
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> To: Riyad Kalla |
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> Cc: hannes@g.o; gentoo-dev@g.o; gentoo-core@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Graphical Installer |
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> |
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> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:41:57 -0700 |
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> "Riyad Kalla" <rsk@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> |
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> > Haha that's a fantastic name. Whoever continues/works on |
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> the ncurses |
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> > installer, please keep the name! |
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> |
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> Hehe -- yeah that was a bit of inspired work. Larry rules!! :) |
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> Now onto the more serious stuff -- cursingcow is 95% ready |
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> for use in the 1.4 release on PPC. I have not had much time |
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> lately to work on it, but I am taking a week's vacation and |
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> starting Dec 2, I will be poolishing it off. For x86, the |
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> only thing I have left to do is grub configuration, the rest is done. |
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> I suppose I should really let you (core-gentoo) in on the |
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> design of cursingcow.... Well, it is all python, and is |
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> ncurses and gtk based. The gtk interface is more a token |
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> example right now -- it really doesnt look good nor function |
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> yet. It uses a statemachine architecture with a 'cargo' of |
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> data passed between states. Each state is designed to be a |
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> separate step, so adding new steps, or replacing old ones is |
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> quite easy. |
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> There is also an autoinstallation mode -- take a look at |
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> autoinstall.txt. You do need to provide a few extra files, |
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> like a make.conf, kernel.config, but the installer will build |
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> you a system with no user interaction. The autoinstall.txt |
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> can also be used in interactive mode to preload data. This |
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> allows you to walk through the installer, but not having to |
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> input the data each time. |
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> For those of you working on |
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> sparc/alpha/strongarm/fiddlydodump/ the design of cursingcow |
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> is to abstract all of the arch dependent code into one class, |
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> which needs to be coded for your arch ( see arch.py ). |
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> I would really like to hear any and all comments on this! |
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> Nic |
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> -- |
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> Nicholas Henke |
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> Linux Cluster Systems Programmer |
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> Liniac Project - Univ. of Pennsylvania |
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