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I like this idea.. When I reviewed Corel Linux back in the day, the only |
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thing that impressed me was that you could play solitaire while the install |
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ran. Sun Solaris is even better, you have an embedded web browser in the |
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installer and can surf the web. A KDE LiveCD environment would be the |
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Everest of installers. |
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Speaking of the KDE LiveCD, is there a URL for this somewhere John? I |
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really like MandrakeMove (the bootable distro-on-cd), and love even more |
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that it will probe for a USB memory key and use it to store settings, files, |
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home dir, etc. So you can take your whole environment from computer to |
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computer while keeping your settings. The problem is that Mandrake only |
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allows the USB Key functionality in the paid version of MandrakeMove. We |
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could do one up by making one for free :) |
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Cheers! |
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-Corey |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Nathaniel McCallum [mailto:npmccallum@g.o] |
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Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 7:52 PM |
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To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] installer/ releng coordination |
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On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 17:36, John Davis wrote: |
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> Yeah, livecd integration of anything is always tricky. What kind of |
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> LiveCD are you thinking of using? I am using a beta KDE LiveCD atm |
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> that works perfectly. We also have the standard minimal/ universal |
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LiveCDs. |
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> Tell me what you need and I can get it to you. As for the installer's |
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> needs, we already cover most of those, so no worries. |
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Once we get there, this is my vision. I'd love to see a full knoppix-like |
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cd that people can boot their computers on and use their computer. Then the |
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installer can be non-modal, so they can do stuff while gentoo is installing |
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(unlike anaconda, etc). |
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My own personal preferance is to use pygtk for the installer, as I have |
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experience with it. (I don't think anyone on the project has experience with |
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pyqt, but I could be wrong). I'd also just like to see the installer just |
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be a package in portage, that way people can easily make their own live CDs |
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using whatever desktop (or apps) they want. But those are my fanciful goals |
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(long-term). |
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Nathaniel |
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