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On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:39:56 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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> Um, we can think out of the box for a new and cool installation |
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> semantic. Just look at blueness's posting (Gentoo Reference System) on |
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> www.gentoo.org as a new, and useful approach to installs for |
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> established gentoo admins. |
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That's interesting, but not an installer. It's a means to building a |
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standard reference system repeatedly that then needs installing. |
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I see one major problem with a pointy-clicky YaST/Ananconda type |
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installer: who is going to write it? Who has that particular itch bad |
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enough to scratch it? |
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An automated installer is another matter, write a config file and point it |
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at some bare metal using something like Ansible, to allow sysadmins to |
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roll out systems with less fiddling. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his |
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mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. |
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-- Jerome K. Jerome |
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