Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer For Gento

[Cal Evans]

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I'm running it right now installing a new server.

Let me know how I may be of service,
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Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:09:17 +0800
> Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
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>>3. I think you seriously need to come up with an "enterprise strategy"
>>and standardised installs with support rather than letting them go their
>>own way (if that is possible).
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> I think a better way towards a GUI installer would be a installer reading a file specifing how to install. Since the gentoo install instructions are pretty streamlined by now, it should be possible to generate a XML-file-scheme describing the process.
> If that is done, it wouldn't be to hard to generate a Live-CD starting, for example the miniserv.pl from webmin with a web-based interface for the installer generating just a XML file and starting the installer (making it network-transparent on the fly).
> Also it offers other options, like for example in a enterprise environment, you could have a live-CD identifying the system its boots up by the NIC, downloads a configuration from one central server and completes the install without user interaction. Thus, this might allow a pretty easy administration of a gentoo-farm ;-)
> Ok, Im dreaming here.
> The hardest part would be a flexible way to identify existing drives/partitions and resizing windows partitions to make it possible to use "generic" installer-files (things like "find the smaller drive, resize existing Windows-partition to 50% of the the drive-size ...") on different hardware.
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> I've been thinking about this for quite some time, but did not find the time to dig deeper into this ....
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> Greetz,
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