Trent W. Buck wrote: > Does Ubiquity support installing Debian? yes.
> If not, is anyone working on it? not that I'm aware of, and I also think it's useless. >From the Debian point of view, we should only have one installer infrastructure. An implementation of that can be seen in the different modes d-i has, a text modus and a graphical modus. Apart from the graphical bling, all options, how it works and the look and feel of both modes are identical. This is a great strength, since you only need to support/test/document/$whatever one backend. That's also why live-installer is made as a udeb to hook into d-i, and not beeing a reinvention of the wheel, so that all the d-i framework is used except the difference of not bootstrapping the system but unpacking the squashfs. For a future 'click-on-your-desktop'-installer, the same should be kept in mind. For the text-mode installer, depending on what is better, either doing kexec to launch d-i, or doing a loop-mount of the d-i initrd, chroot into it, and launch it there from a terminal window. A year ago, the d-i graphical guy said, that the graphical d-i mode could be easily recompiled to work as a standalone application (it needs to be linked against gtk, rather than gtk directfb stuff in order to run on ordinary X11). I've not heard anything new on that. Would be nice if anyone has time to look into that though. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
