From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-releng-return-43297-arch-gentoo-releng=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 9210 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 24 Aug 2004 14:23:33 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BzcCx-0006lF-Cf for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:23:31 +0000 Received: (qmail 21440 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2004 14:23:30 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-releng@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-releng-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-releng-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-releng.gentoo.org> Reply-To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2763 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2004 14:23:29 +0000 Message-ID: <412B4F5C.6070704@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:23:24 -0400 From: Eric Sammer <esammer@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040812) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wolf31o2@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org References: <1093034918.9961.1.camel@antares.hausnetz> <20040824053723.GA10334@vega.hausnetz> <1093355348.20295.43.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1093355348.20295.43.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on samus.int.ineoconcepts.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Installer in 2005.0 X-Archives-Salt: 87925c95-b821-464d-a43b-0de385690e14 X-Archives-Hash: dae7e9beea6961e8e8fa021b24895df3 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > That would be awesome. I also am going to try to come up with a nice > beta X CD very soon, so I can give the installer guys something to > work with. Very cool. I think either way, we'll be able to provide something of use to releng for 2005.0. Due to resources and time, we're currently concentrating on x86 as that is the hardware that is readily available and what most people in our neck of the Gentoo woods are accustomed to. That is not to say that other archs such as ppc, sparc, etc. will not be supported, only that we will get x86 on its feet and fill in the arch specific details as resources become available. > Eric, do you guys have any plans for making some kind of "hdinstall" > type of script? If not, we can work with you to create one, allowing > someone to essentially dump the contents of our ISO onto their hard > drive, making for a *very* quick install. This is a good idea. We had planned support for pointing at custom stage3 tarballs in the profile (see our docs for additional info on profiles etc.) which would fetch the stage if the URI is http(s):// or copy if it's file:// which would perform something similar. Is that kind of feature along the same lines as what you're thinking of? I'm not super familiar with hdinstall, but I imagine it just writes the contents of an ISO to disk. Again, I want to thank the releng devs and you've been nothing but supportive and helpful (especially wolf, beejay, and zhen). I've joined the releng list so I can eavesdrop on the ideas that pop up here as well. If anyone has ideas, comments, suggestions, etc. for installer features or would like to help (nudge, nudge) feel free to email me, join the gentoo-installer list or drop by #gentoo-installer. Thanks again to all. -- E. Sammer esammer@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list