[gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[Alain]

I'm guessing this question has been asked before...   Is anyone
working on a Gentoo installer?  So people don't have to have a copy
of the install docs laying next to them to install this puppy?

Alain


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[Joseph Carter]

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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:29:35AM -0700, Alain wrote:
> I'm guessing this question has been asked before...   Is anyone
> working on a Gentoo installer?  So people don't have to have a copy
> of the install docs laying next to them to install this puppy?

Bunch of wusses, can't even install a system...  ;)

hehe, okay, actually I do need a 3x5" card with a list of files to
remember to edit before I install grub and reboot the system, and it
certainly would be more convenient if there was some silly script to
automate the final steps a bit, but IMO it'd be better to work on the
existing tools which get used every day like etc-update.

Improving the livecd or the chroot installation could be cool, I just
think there are more important things for those who have the skills
necessary to really simplify the install process to work on.  They may
disagree, of course.  =)


Another thing to keep in mind..  Most of the "simple" Linux distributions
either work or they don't.  One of the strengths of Gentoo is that since
there's no installer, it's pretty easy to fix anything that doesn't work
with your setup.  I think that some people would object to losing that,
and they'd be quite right to do so.

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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@efn.org>                  Not ready for prime-time
 
<Delenn> I wouldn't make it through 24 hours before I'd be firing up the
         grill and slapping a few friends on the barbie.
<spacemoos> Why would you slap friends with barbies, thats kinda kinky


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[Eric Stockbridge]

yes, there is work being done on an installer program called cursing cow

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 08:29, Alain wrote:
> I'm guessing this question has been asked before...   Is anyone
> working on a Gentoo installer?  So people don't have to have a copy
> of the install docs laying next to them to install this puppy?
> 
> Alain
> 
> 
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> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
> 

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Gentoo Linux
Webmaster/Documentation


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RE: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[Riyad Kalla]

haha god I love that name.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Stockbridge [mailto:stocke2@gentoo.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:51 AM
> To: Alain
> Cc: gentoo-dev
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer
> 
> 
> yes, there is work being done on an installer program called 
> cursing cow
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 08:29, Alain wrote:
> > I'm guessing this question has been asked before...   Is anyone
> > working on a Gentoo installer?  So people don't have to 
> have a copy of 
> > the install docs laying next to them to install this puppy?
> > 
> > Alain
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Eric Stockbridge
> Gentoo Linux
> Webmaster/Documentation
> 
> 
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
> 


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[Sebastian 'seezer' Goth]

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To put lynx on the livecds was a great idea - so where is the problem :)

http://seezer.is-root.org/seezer.gpg

> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:29:35AM -0700, Alain wrote:
>> I'm guessing this question has been asked before...   Is anyone
>> working on a Gentoo installer?  So people don't have to have a copy of
>> the install docs laying next to them to install this puppy?
>
> Bunch of wusses, can't even install a system...  ;)
>
> hehe, okay, actually I do need a 3x5" card with a list of files to
> remember to edit before I install grub and reboot the system, and it
> certainly would be more convenient if there was some silly script to
> automate the final steps a bit, but IMO it'd be better to work on the
> existing tools which get used every day like etc-update.
>
> Improving the livecd or the chroot installation could be cool, I just
> think there are more important things for those who have the skills
> necessary to really simplify the install process to work on.  They may
> disagree, of course.  =)
>
>
> Another thing to keep in mind..  Most of the "simple" Linux
> distributions either work or they don't.  One of the strengths of Gentoo
> is that since there's no installer, it's pretty easy to fix anything
> that doesn't work with your setup.  I think that some people would
> object to losing that, and they'd be quite right to do so.
>
> --
> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@efn.org>                  Not ready for
> prime-time
>
> <Delenn> I wouldn't make it through 24 hours before I'd be firing up the
>          grill and slapping a few friends on the barbie.
> <spacemoos> Why would you slap friends with barbies, thats kinda kinky




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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installer

[Joseph Carter]

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:51:03AM -0600, Eric Stockbridge wrote:
> yes, there is work being done on an installer program called cursing cow

An installer for Gateway-branded machines?  =)

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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@efn.org>            The guy with a rocket launcher
 
I sat laughing snidely into my notebook until they showed me a PC running
Linux. And oh! It was as though the heavens opened and God handed down a
client-side OS so beautiful, so graceful, and so elegant that a million
Microsoft developers couldn't have invented it even if they had a hundred
years and a thousand crates of Jolt cola.
        -- LAN Times


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