[gentoo-dev] Installer

[gentoo-dev] Installer

[Nick Muldoon]

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Hi,

I am very keen to get Gentoo Installed on my main machine, i have tried twice 
unsucessfully - did get it working on an older box though.

I am just wondering if you are planning on releasing a CLI installer or 
similar? 

I know it's probably not that hard for you guys - the developers - to install 
it but i have found it a bit difficult.

- From my very brief experience i can't wait to get it running.

Thanks,
Nick
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Nick Muldoon wrote:

> I am just wondering if you are planning on releasing a CLI installer or 
> similar? 

There has been some work on various installers, but we've not reached any
point stable enough for even volunteer testing. The major effort has been
made against a GUI installer. (vprada@gentoo.org may know more).

> I know it's probably not that hard for you guys - the developers - to install 
> it but i have found it a bit difficult.

The detailed Unix/Linux knowledge required by the installation procedure
is currently indicative of what kind of skill set it takes to run the
installed distribution.

We are of course working to improve this; we do _not_ want our users to
need to be full-fledged developers in order to benefit from the wonders of
Gentoo.

However, current efforts are made against system stability. We want to
have a collection of packages that work nicely together, that one can
expect that *any* emerge <package> will work without any hassle, and that
new releases of Gentoo have been QAed.

Once that is handled, time will most likely be ripe for writing, adapting
and soliciting system installation and administration tools.

(Disclaimer: As with any open-source project, the team members could
decide to take a hard left any day, so this is nothing more than a
[well?] educated guess.)


Kind regards,

Karl T