[gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated
A few months ago the Gentoo Release engineering team changed the way that releases are done to simplfy, automate, and provide more current release media on a more regular basis. One of the consequences of this is that the livecds are no-longer being released. This leaves the installer with no place or function any longer. The installer developers have all moved on to other projects, leaving GLI in an unmaintained state. We can no-longer offer support for the 2008.0-r1 LiveCDs for x86 and amd64, though we expect it to work for those that use it. During this project's five year existence, it has been both a pride for Gentoo and a source of controversy. The Gentoo Handbook is still the official installation method for Gentoo. For those still seeking to do automated gentoo installs, please see the Quickstart project at http://agaffney.org/quickstart.php -Codeman
Re: [gentoo-dev] Are you guys for real?
On 6/13/07, Jayson Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Gentoo is over. Gentoo can't be over! I still have $10 riding on Gentoo having a larger market share than Windows Vista in 5 years! I still think I will win :) -Codeman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] GeNUS : how I currently manage my gentoo network (200+ machines)
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 08:22 +0200, Hubert Mercier wrote: Hi, When I recently officially joined the Gentoo Project, I had the idea to share a part of my work, in the way of a scripts set I've been working on for more than 2 years now, which I called GeNUS (Gentoo Network Update System). Sounds interesting. Would you perhaps be interested in helping with the Scire project? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/scire/ and http://agaffney.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page -Codeman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users
I can understand chris's position. but it would be nice if he would consider the development of a script for the livecd that could extract the stage4 on it and include documentation in the handbook on how to do it. being done for next release. i'm assuming you meant stage3 here. because as is the installers don't allow for enough flexibility. on the contrary, most of our problems in the installer come from offering too much flexibility. I personally would like to know who decided to put bottom and I think top partition size limits in the installer. the limits should have been dictated by the filesystem limits themselves. partition limits are decided by the size of the drive and the other partitions on it. another option might be a skip section of the installer. that way we can on do the stage4 part, and forget the rest if we want. would any of this be such a hard and impossible thing for releng to do and support? this support already exists. the installer has modes for stage4 and chroot installations. -Codeman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-dev] Installer Version 0.4 Release Announcement
The Installer Team is happy to announce the 0.4 release of the Gentoo Linux Installer. There are two major new features in this release and a number of smaller changes. The biggest change is an overhaul of the partitioning code. The installer will now be more gentle to people's drives and not recreate the partition map unless it must. Also, it will now abort an install _before_ partitioning if an unsupported layout or unknown filesystem is found. Note that unformatted partitions are currently considered unknown by the installer for safety reasons; please format them beforehand. The second big change is the addition of a Networkless mode in the frontends. Selecting a networkless install pre-selects many options and disables other options. This is in an effort to avoid letting users easily create configurations that will break the installation. Because of a lack of an Internet connection, the installer limits the packages and versions available to emerge. There have been a few other changes, mostly bug fixes, but the same general rules still apply. The installer is designed to be as flexible as possible, so despite our efforts to make it robust, if you really try to break it, you will likely succeed. We appologize that we have not been able to provide more features this release; the lead developers have been pre-occupied with making the 2006.1 release and getting the Scire project off the ground. Not to worry though! We still have a lot of things planned for the installer. Goals for the 2007.0 release include working internationalization in the frontends, improved partitioning with possibly LVM support, an overhaul of some of the GTK frontend screens, and support for ppc and Alpha architectures. As always, if you find a bug in the installer, please first READ THE FAQ, and if it is not a known issue or fixed in CVS, please file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. Enjoy! -Codeman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Linux preinstalled
The Gentoo Installer will be able to do mass installations very soon using a secure XMLRPC server and nice web interface and all that jazz. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/ you can grab experimental livecds with the installer on them from the mirrors. -CodemanOn 10/14/05, Alexander Simonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about mass instalation Gentoo?Now it's how i know impossible, it's get more time.Any one know technology for mass instalation Gentoo?W/ NFS,HTTP or FTP instalation.W/ X server, KDE or Gnome ?W/ Office packages? How i know RH and SuSE have this.Thank you for ansver.On Fri, 14.10.2005 10:12, Duncan wrote: Stefan Schweizer posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below,on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:33:57 +0200: I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the correct prcedure of doing so? Anyone knows of something like a sysprep script for linux that will ask the costumer for userand passwort setup when he first switches on the PC? This is what the catalyst application does -- allow one to make their own customized LiveCD installers*, just like Gentoo does with each periodic snapshot release. The ebuild is in portage, and there's a catalyst specific mailing list, should you have any questions. --- * Presumably, they don't have to be CDs or CD images, but I've never used it personally and haven't chanced to see that specifically stated in threads such as this that I've come across, so can't say for sure.--WBR, Alexander SimonovUkrainian Gentoo Community Coordinator--gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
