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> 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on |
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> thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation |
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> process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? |
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> Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? |
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> 1.5) There is a hidden assumption here that image based installations |
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> would not work for everyone (likely due to a lack of the 'right' |
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> image; too old, wrong arch, etc...) |
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agaffney had started work on quickstart, which basically did what the |
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handbook did in an automatic fashion. i only tried it a couple of times, |
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but it worked rather well. |
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its a small and neat piece of code. for anybody looking at deploying |
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Gentoo in an automatic fashion this is a good start: |
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http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php |
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kind regards |
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Thilo |
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