On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:41:46PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Thierry Laronde wrote:
Yep. There are several ideas in FreeBSD that I do like [I don't know if you
remember but last year, there was a thread about the need for a static
shell for recovery --- sash ; I have seen that sash is
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:00:37PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
If we have a seperate preperation and installation phase then it would
make the installer more versatile.
The actual installation phase could be much like what debootsrap does,
and the preperation stage would involve preparing
Thierry Laronde wrote:
It could seem that I'm reinventing the wheel, but I have found that even
when facing a huge task, it takes me less time to do it by myself than
trying to convince others that it is worth working on it /*sigh*/.
Yea, i know how you feel, it seems that there are a few of
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 01:08:39AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Thierry Laronde wrote:
BTW, I have designed a new packaging system, with a new package format, that
could be a proposal for a common basis for other packaging system.
Id be interested in hearing what you have in mind, do
There are two things that I would like to see in a new installer that I don't
see in debian-installer at the moment:
1. The ability to redo some of the installation after the system is all the way
set up. I would like to see the same utility, same user interface, that people
can use to modify
I got board one weekend and have done this in a way for
debian-linux-i386 and it works quite well. I had initially done a
single prep/build environment but it got too messy. The separation of
phases helped keep the complexity of both systems down. Phase I is a
good rescue environment and
If we have a seperate preperation and installation phase then it would
make the installer more versatile.
The actual installation phase could be much like what debootsrap does,
and the preperation stage would involve preparing an environment for
deboostrap to run.
The preperation phase could
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