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On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote: |
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> From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. |
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> However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think |
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> I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that |
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> LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most |
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> curious to read other folk's ideas (strategies) to create a more |
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> automated installation semantic for installing gentoo systems. The handbook |
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> is fine; in fact it is great. But, many gentoo users that have performed |
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> more than a dozen gentoo installs sooner or later get around to their own |
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> installations customizations for a wide variety of valid reasons. |
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> Ansible would lend itself to expanded and very targeted types of system |
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> installs where an accomplished gentoo user could supplement the base install |
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> with a collection of specific packages and config settings; imho. Say for |
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> example a secure web or mail server, not that it would be the only |
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> way to build such a server, but just one specific method a particular author |
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> wanted to (share) publish. Surely there are other and better ideas that |
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> folks have used or that they are currently contemplating for routine gentoo |
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> installs? |
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> Maybe some discussion herein could help shape the efforts of [2,3]? |
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> Naturally, we should remember Release Engineering and their role |
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> as pivotal [3]. [1 and 2] are interesting to read. |
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> James |
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> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo |
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> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Installer |
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> [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS |
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I used to install and look after OpenSuse Desk and Laptops until systemd |
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showed it's ugly face. Now I install and look after several Gentoo Xfce |
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desktops and 3 OpenSuse Xfce Laptops. I use a Cut & Paste script to |
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install Gentoo on Desktops. The only manual parts are booting a Gentoo |
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USB stick, modifying hostname, ip address, user names and partitioning. |
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When completed. Wen done, log in as user and set up email accounts and |
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various eye candy. |
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OpenSuse install on laptop involves booting of a installation USB stick, |
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select Xfce Desktop, manually enter time zone, user name, counry, |
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hostname, ip address, Samba, login as user and and set up email accounts |
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and various eye candy. |
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I am to stupid to install and get Gentoo to work on Laptops. |
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My "dream" would be to have the OpensSuse Yast installer and |
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administration gui to install, configure and maintain Gentoo on Desktops |
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and Laptops. This should be easy for a programmer whois familiar with |
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Ruby and C. The Yast installer and administration gui's are nothing more |
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than gui interfaced to various command line utilities. |
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