<wabenbau <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I used to install and look after OpenSuse Desk and Laptops until > > systemd showed it's ugly face. Now I install and look after several > > Gentoo Xfce desktops and 3 OpenSuse Xfce Laptops. I use a Cut & Paste > > script to install Gentoo on Desktops. The only manual parts are > > booting a Gentoo USB stick, modifying hostname, ip address, user > > names and partitioning. When completed. Wen done, log in as user and > > set up email accounts and various eye candy. Sounds reasonable. Wouldn't it be great if that was an automated semantic we could all use? > > OpenSuse install on laptop involves booting of a installation USB > > stick, select Xfce Desktop, manually enter time zone, user name, > > counry, hostname, ip address, Samba, login as user and and set up > > email accounts and various eye candy. > > I am to stupid to install and get Gentoo to work on Laptops. Um, I disagree. The disk/bios/bootstrap issues are perverted by the manufacturers, particularly on laptops, tablets and embedded devices as to soot their business goals; hence on a laptop the preventative issues are magnified. You are not alone in this struggle. > > My "dream" would be to have the OpensSuse Yast installer and > > administration gui to install, configure and maintain Gentoo on > > Desktops and Laptops. This should be easy for a programmer whois > > familiar with Ruby and C. The Yast installer and administration gui's > > are nothing more than gui interfaced to various command line > > utilities. If it works, I'd use it, regardless of Yast. Maybe we can find a person that knows Yast (Ruby and such) to hire to write a similar installer for GEntoo? I'm not against hiring the right person to write a gentoo installer:: as long as I get a BTRFS raid 1 base system out of it. DONE DEAL! If anyone is interested, just drop me some private email. It has to open sourced..... > Yast was one of the reasons why I switched from SUSE to gentoo in 2003. > IIRC one problem with Yast was that it used it's own configuration files > and not the standard upstream configuration files of the installed > packages. This sometimes made the manual configuration of packages very > difficult for me, because the original package documentation refers to > config files that I could not found on my SUSE system. > Another caveat was that if one of the Yast config files was altered by > hand, it was not possible to configure this file with Yast anymore. > Of course in the beginning of my Linux experience (SuSE 4.2) I was happy > that there was Yast because I came from OS/2 and it was a nightmare for > me to configure Linux the first time, even with Yast. Without Yast > I maybe would not use Linux today. Maybe Yast is better today, but in > the past it was sometimes very frustrating. OK, so we need an expert here. Any takers? Make a few dollars and get famous for writing (hacking) a gentoo installer for the gentoo-commoners? Anyone? James
