From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl889-0003pV-6D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 18:40:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l47Id2Mc025734; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:39:02 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l47Id0ct025725; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:39:00 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F408364AC2; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:38:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.076 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.076 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.076] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7BdS1m68RSNv; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9380164E2B; Mon, 7 May 2007 18:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF42068C1A7; Mon, 7 May 2007 13:38:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from creativecommunications.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (creativecommunications.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mgPhk568qyee; Mon, 7 May 2007 13:38:44 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.1.80] (unknown [192.168.1.80]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25FB68C1A4; Mon, 7 May 2007 13:38:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <463F7234.9070301@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:38:44 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-installer@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-installer@lists.gentoo.org CC: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-installer] Announcing GLI ("the installer") 0.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b561ab21-eeba-4a4c-95b3-a6decdec860d X-Archives-Hash: 32055a288d3b0f5a7f600fedf88386b2 The Gentoo Linux Installer team would like to announce version 0.5[.4] (we've found a few bugs since the initial 0.5 release) of the installer. This release, which is available on the 2007.0 x86 and amd64 LiveCD/DVDs, has a lot of changes from the previous one (so many that it really should have been a new major version, but we haven't even reached 1.0 yet, so it's a bit hard to jump to 2.0). The major change is that the installer is now interactive, so instead of configuring everything and then letting the install go, it acts more like every other installer that has ever existed. If you're looking for something to do automated installs, check out the installer's sister project, Quickstart at . As always, there are many improvements (and bugfixes) since the last version. * Yet Another Partitioning Code Overhaul: partitioning is now done in real time, so all of the problems that affected previous installer versions are now gone. It is completely and absolutely safe. The worst it can do is mess up when deleting a partition you wanted to delete or creating a new partition, neither of which will result in data loss. * GTK+ frontend redesign: most of the screens have been redesigned from the ground up to go along with the new real-time functionality of the installer. The content of the screens is drawn dynamically as you reach the screen, instead of just disabling elements that don't apply anymore due to previous decisions. This makes the interface seem a lot less clunky. We also have some cool new graphics for the splash screen and banner image thanks to blackace. * GTK+ frontend allows you to choose from 3 modes: Networkless, Standard, and Advanced. * GRP mode is now only available in Networkless mode. * When existing prematurely from the installer, it will offer to clean up after itself (unmount partitions, move logfiles, etc.) * Dialog frontend has been given an overhaul and now has complete i18n support along with 5 translations. * CLI frontend fixup: the non-interactive CLI frontend has been fixed up. It can be used to do automated installs with GLI if you create an install profile by hand if you pre-partition or use the recommended partition layout. As always with improvements, there are new bugs created to go along with them. If you do encounter a bug, make sure to save your /tmp/installprofile.xml and /var/log/installer.log.failed from the LiveCD right after the install fails. File a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/. Select the "Gentoo Release Media" product and the "Installer" component. If you can't find that, just use the following link: http://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gentoo%20Release%20Media&component=Installer&format=guided -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project -- gentoo-installer@gentoo.org mailing list