[gentoo-scire] Quickstart 0.5 Released

[gentoo-scire] Quickstart 0.5 Released

[Andrew Gaffney]

I've just released Quickstart 0.5. I've been slacking terribly since the 0.4 
release back on December 31, 2006. However, I have done a few things, and I 
decided it was enough to justify doing another release. Here's the short list:

* added support for creating/mounting XFS and reiserfs3
* various fixes to the handling of extended/logical partitions
* add disk detection, so that you can use $disk0 instead of /dev/hda for more
   flexible install profiles
* automatically modify TIMEZONE in /etc/conf.d/clock
* full busybox compatibility
* allow specification of extra kernel commandline parameters
* added a fetcher for tftp:// URIs
* many bugs fixed. this is essentially a permanent fixture in this list for
   every release :P

If you would like more information, the project page for Quickstart is available 
at <http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/quickstart.php>.

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Re: [gentoo-scire] Quickstart 0.5 Released

[John Alberts]

On Feb 10, 2008 5:37 PM, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I've just released Quickstart 0.5. ...

I just wanted to say thank you for working on this.  I really think
this these type of projects (quickstart and scire) are important to
help spread Gentoo's use in universities and in businesses, which I
think is important for any Linux distribution.
Is quickstart being used in the Scire project?
Has anyone used quickstart and posted their experiences somewhere?


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Re: [gentoo-scire] Quickstart 0.5 Released

[Preston Cody]

On Feb 10, 2008 10:09 PM, John Alberts <john.m.alberts@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is quickstart being used in the Scire project?
> Has anyone used quickstart and posted their experiences somewhere?

We're working on writing both a quickstart server for use for
deploying netboot installs,
as well as integration into Scire.  Andrew's gonna be working mainly
on the former, myself on the latter.
Help is welcome.

-Codeman
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Re: [gentoo-scire] Quickstart 0.5 Released

[Andrew Gaffney]

John Alberts wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2008 5:37 PM, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I've just released Quickstart 0.5. ...
> 
> I just wanted to say thank you for working on this.  I really think
> this these type of projects (quickstart and scire) are important to
> help spread Gentoo's use in universities and in businesses, which I
> think is important for any Linux distribution.
> Is quickstart being used in the Scire project?

Yes, they will be able to be used together. However, neither one will require 
the other. The projects share a common developer (me).

> Has anyone used quickstart and posted their experiences somewhere?

Yes, a surprising number of people (to me, anyway) have been using Quickstart 
since shortly after I did the first release in October of 2006. I'm not sure 
about people posting their experiences, but I'm sure a google search for 
"quickstart gentoo" will turn up a few things.

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