On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, shiriy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 07:46:56 -0300 >> From: Maginot Junior <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Installing the Distro >> To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Do you have any direction you could point to me? I'm a kind of lost in >> this task, for now I'm going with the installer I did with C, but >> using it the user still needs to reboot the box after cleaning the >> disks to finish the install.... =/ >> >> >> >> best regards >> >> --- >> Maginot Junior >> >> > I thought we talk about packet manger :) > > But do the distro installer is another interesting work. > 1) we should have binary packs for all packets (programs), maybe with > standart configs in /etc > 2) we should prepare partition(s) > 3) mount prepared partition(s) to temporary dir > 4) The simplest )) is unpack binary packets to prepared partition(s) > 5) install or reconfigure loader (grub, lilo, etc.) > 6) reboot > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Well, since I did not find any already made application that could easily integrate with my LFS system, which is compatible with LFS and BLFS book instructions I'm finishing my own installer, it uses a GTK+ interface made with C and uses bash scripts to run the verifications, partition operations, and all other process. After preparing the disk the box is restarted and the install process finishes by untaring the /sys-files/*.tar.bz2 to /mnt/new-sys-root/ an screen asking for login informations like name, login and password is asked and a bashscript process the information and change the files inside /etc and /home/$USER Is almost finish, hope to be able to test on monday. Maybe I could make it available for LFS if whish since it can work with any distro since only need the tar files... best regards [ ]'s --- Maginot Jr. LPIC3/CLA/CCNA -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
