James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> > 80% done as Cut & Paste "script". My bottleneck is running fdisk and > > feeding commands to fdisk from within a bash script. Remember, you have this codebase to look at for ideas on bash installs:: https://github.com/agaffney/quickstart > > Running Gentoo from a USB stick with Grub static is no problem if you > > don't mind that its sloooow. I use 2TB USB drive with Gentoo Xfce > > installed to back up my families Laptops. Plug in the USB drive. Power > > on the Laptop, Login as Laptop-1. Click the Backup or Restore Icon to > > start the required rsync session. Have lunch or surf the net. > > Will make a image for a USB stick with or without Xfce if someone is > > seriously interested. This USB stick require DHCP from a router for > > networking and have only VGA video. Persistence on the usb stick will allow for software to be added or removed, so it might speed up your development efforts to roll out images for testing; here are some more links that might help:: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveDVD-Persistence-Mode https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Install_Gentoo_on_a_bootable_USB_stick For expertise help, maffblaster might just review what you have done and give you ideas on how to complete an installer via bash. He originally said he wanted to port the bash to python(3), if my memory is correct. hth, James > 'eix libyui' > hth, > James > [1] http://libyui.sourceforge.net/ > [2] https://github.com/libyui/libyui > [3] http://michal.hrusecky.net/2011/08/libyui-in-gentoo/
