Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:19:39 +1000, Hans wrote: I could, with some help from a Bash coder, create a USB stick that runs Gentoo and a Bash script to install Gentoo on a hard drive. I have about 80% done as Cut Paste script. My bottleneck is running fdisk and feeding commands to fdisk from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread Bruce Schultz
(This has ended up hard to read; I hope it's not my tablet that's messed up the message threading, but apologies in advance if it is) On 27 July 2015 3:19:50 AM AEST, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Bruce Schultz brulzki at gmail.com writes: Matthew Marchese maffblas...@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread Hans
On 27/07/15 03:29, James wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 27 July 2015 9:24:30 PM AEST, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:19:39 +1000, Hans wrote: I could, with some help from a Bash coder, create a USB stick that runs Gentoo and a Bash script to install Gentoo on a hard drive. I have about 80% done as Cut Paste

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread James
Bruce Schultz brulzki at gmail.com writes: (This has ended up hard to read; I hope it's not my tablet that's messed up the message threading, but apologies in advance if it is) Nope. I use gmane as a front end and it is aggressive in trying to keep posts small. It also rambles a bit so here

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread James
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-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread James
Hans linux at interworld.net.au writes: 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 I don't really think that there is a requirement for Ruby. Today's Yast2 is simply a

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread James
Hans linux at interworld.net.au writes: I could, with some help from a Bash coder, create a USB stick that runs Gentoo and a Bash script to install Gentoo on a hard drive. I have about 80% done as Cut Paste script. My bottleneck is running fdisk and feeding commands to fdisk from within

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread Hans
On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote: From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread James
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread wabenbau
Hans li...@interworld.net.au wrote: On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote: From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that LikeWhoa put

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread James
Bruce Schultz brulzki at gmail.com writes: Matthew Marchese maffblas...@gentoo.org writes: I see that you've found stager. I'd like you to share your thoughts on what a perfect installer Gentoo could do. A successful gentoo installer will: Be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-25 Thread Bruce Schultz
On 25 July 2015 11:09:36 PM AEST, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: Matthew Marchese maffblas...@gentoo.org writes: Hi all, I see that you've found stager. I'd like you to share your thoughts on what a perfect installer Gentoo could do. The Debian installer is the best one I've seen so far. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-25 Thread lee
Matthew Marchese maffblas...@gentoo.org writes: Hi all, I see that you've found stager. I'd like you to share your thoughts on what a perfect installer Gentoo could do. The Debian installer is the best one I've seen so far. If you're thinking towards Redhat, the Fedora installer can't even

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-18 Thread James
J.Rutkowski jrtk at pancakebungalow.com writes: It appears Kickstart may not necessarily require Anaconda as it is compatible the the Ubuntu installer [1]. While Kickstart itself may or may not be ideal, I think having install parameters in one single file is intriguing. UPdate::

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-18 Thread Matthew Marchese
Hi all, I see that you've found stager. I'd like you to share your thoughts on what a perfect installer Gentoo could do. Feel free to open an Issue request on GitHub. I may reject them, but I'm certainly open to community participation! On other notes, I see that you've found Kickstart. You

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-18 Thread James
Matthew Marchese maffblaster at gentoo.org writes: maffblaster You are already my *fav_dev* just for taking on this subject:: I'm gonna encourage other folks to participate Surely I'll be testing your stage 4 offerings:: amd64 arm8v You're gonna support arm8v right out the shoot,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread Jc GarcĂ­a
2015-07-17 11:55 GMT-06:00 James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com: J.Rutkowski jrtk at pancakebungalow.com writes: Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? Yes Kickstart is very cool [4] and an examination of it, if not outright usage, is a keen idea for discussion. Has

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread James
J.Rutkowski jrtk at pancakebungalow.com writes: Anyone take a look at RHEL Kickstart for automated installs? Yes Kickstart is very cool [4] and an examination of it, if not outright usage, is a keen idea for discussion. Has anyone actually used kickstart to install gentoo? If so, any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-17 Thread J.Rutkowski
It appears Kickstart may not necessarily require Anaconda as it is compatible the the Ubuntu installer [1]. While Kickstart itself may or may not be ideal, I think having install parameters in one single file is intriguing. [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KickstartCompatibility J.