From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-3704-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 7947 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jun 2003 20:50:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26278 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2003 20:50:03 -0000 From: "Sean P. Kane" <spkane@genomatica.com> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200306102231.37276.fdnews_gentoo@partimage.org> References: <C42D120999B1CC4C886B6BB2832F356019BF4D@hermes.genomatica.com> <200306102231.37276.fdnews_gentoo@partimage.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Genomatica, Inc. Message-Id: <1055278201.424.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 10 Jun 2003 13:50:01 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Jun 2003 20:50:03.0120 (UTC) FILETIME=[DD9B1F00:01C32F91] Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Based Rescue CD X-Archives-Salt: f32697b6-ceed-4d56-b285-0161cd5d654f X-Archives-Hash: 89ede931cef6e45c1be0d08266097532 This sounds like a good idea. I'll be up front in saying that I am not a very experienced programmer, but I have been using Linux since the pre-1.0 days as a network administrator and infrastructure person and can contribute a lot to the design layout and testing of the rescue CD but would need support in any programming arenas that go beyond either simply patching or shell scripting. Although I understand programming theory pretty well, it has been a long time since I have written much serious code. If I take on this project, would you be interested in working to get QtParted integrated into it if possible? Sean On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:31, François Dupoux wrote: > Hi, > > I am very interested by your message. IMHO, The official gentoo livecd is > already one of the most interesting rescue cd. We have parted, partimage... > But vim is missing. > > One very important point: QtParted is a Qt graphical user interface for GNU > Parted. It uses parted, and other tools, such as mkfs.jfs, ... > It aims to replace Partition Magic. > > There is no ebuild for the moment, but a bug is open: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18714 > > I am porting QtParted to autoconf/automake, in order to make it easy to use in > gentoo, qnd it needs a better quality build system. The current unstable > version works well with automake/autoconf, and the next stable release will > use it. I will now contribute to the source of QtParted. > > QtParted don't use KDE. Then we can compile QtParted for Qt-embedded > (./configure --enable-embedded). This would allow to use QtParted without > XFree86, in the console with the FrameBuffer. Then, we would have a free > PartitionMagic clone on the gentoo bootable CD... IMHO, having an EASY > partition tool under Linux, with a easy to use Bootable CD (no need to > configure mouse and keyboard by hand) is very important. > > I did not tested it, because QtParted needs Qt-3.1, and the latest version of > QtEmbedded in gentoo is Qt-3.0.5. We need to update the ebuild of Qt. But I > made another Qt project (PartGui), which worked with QtEmbedded. Then I know > it is possible. > > If other people are interested in this project, you can join. We will progress > faster together. What we can need: > - write ebuild for qtparted, and Qt-embedded-3.1 > - join to the QtParted project (if you know C++ and CVS) > - ... > > regards > > On Monday 09 June 2003 22:19, Sean P. Kane wrote: > > Has anyone made or considered making a bootable Gentoo Based Rescue CD > > (based on the LiveCD and Install CD work)? I think this could be a great > > idea and would actually like to give it a try, but I don't want to > > duplicate work and would love the input of others if they are > > interested. > > > > I haven't thought through this all the way yet, but some of the things > > that I think would make this truly powerful would include: > > > > a kernel compiled with emergency situations in mind (i.e. write support > > for NTFS, even if it isn't super stable) (maybe even a few compiled > > kernels selectable at boot, if need be. > > > > With portage you should be able to setup a nice sized ramdisk that would > > allow people to even emerge tools they might need that aren't on the > > disk for their rescue operation. > > > > Gentoo offers a very modern (cutting-edge) dist which means that it has > > the most useful tools for most situations. > > > > Etc...... > > > > Any input regarding other attempts or general input would be > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Sean > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- Sean P. 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