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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:15:00
Message-Id: 55AE6FF7.4020804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project by Andrew Savchenko
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4 On 21/07/15 12:08 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
5 > On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 09:10:52 -0500 J.Rutkowski wrote:
6 >> The problem I have with using Sabayon to ultimately install
7 >> Gentoo is it takes way too much work than just doing a Gentoo
8 >> install...
9 >
10 > You missed my point. I'm interesting not in minimizing total time
11 > spent for installation and configuration. I'm interested in fast
12 > bootstrapping from "here your box" to "you need to have this work
13 > done". Of course proper configuration and fine tuning will require
14 > time, but this should be done later, not right away.
15 >
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17 The livedvd / liveusb images might support this better, then -- boot
18 it, use an aufs overlay target to store environment changes for what
19 you need right away, and then use 'em like a stage4 image on the main
20 system later?
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22 IIRC, the old installer did this (more or less), except it used
23 quickpkg's off of the non-minimal livecd/livedvd rather than copying.
24 And I don't think it had the ability to store persistent state or
25 changes via an aufs/unionfs overlay.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Rebooting the Installer Project Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>