From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OjcTO-0001Cs-DE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:25:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96633E0A68; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94AA4E0942 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:25:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from marsupilami.localnet (84-238-115-127.u.parknet.dk [84.238.115.127]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A593C1B412C; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:25:23 +0000 (UTC) From: Thilo Bangert Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] status of releng project Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:23:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) References: <20100807211559.GB21345@linux1> In-Reply-To: Cc: agaffney@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart34654186.5y0h4lT0N3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008122024.01804.bangert@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7a3e093a-96ad-4c8c-b677-e915e3dffcfc X-Archives-Hash: 97892844e3cd4b56e87302460e33ae97 --nextPart34654186.5y0h4lT0N3 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on > thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation > process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? > Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? > 1.5) There is a hidden assumption here that image based installations > would not work for everyone (likely due to a lack of the 'right' > image; too old, wrong arch, etc...) agaffney had started work on quickstart, which basically did what the=20 handbook did in an automatic fashion. i only tried it a couple of times,=20 but it worked rather well. its a small and neat piece of code. for anybody looking at deploying=20 Gentoo in an automatic fashion this is a good start: http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php kind regards Thilo --nextPart34654186.5y0h4lT0N3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkxkPEEACgkQxRElEoA5AneTigCdGcZOeZrIYey5wQexBhhc8pYr z8oAoMqxthileZs4HYSqDChU21iuzlfm =u9Un -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart34654186.5y0h4lT0N3--