On 03.04.2013 23:36, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The reason I say Gentoo shouldn't worry about installers is that the
typical person installing Gentoo already knows about chroots. Someone
who doesn't is unlikely to consider Gentoo at all (unless they are
looking to rice, but we long since moved past
On 04/04/2013 10:15, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
Well, an installer certainly would find its users. But none is perfect,
and writing another (imperfect) one exclusively for Gentoo is sort of
wasting time. A true Gentoo way IMO would be a selection of installers
on the installation medium ;-) But
I
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On 04/04/2013 10:15, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote:
Well, an installer certainly would find its users. But none is perfect,
and writing another (imperfect) one exclusively for Gentoo is sort of
wasting time. A true
130404 Alan McKinnon wrote:
A true GentooWay installer would be any installer of your own choice
that launches the shell of your chosing, accepts any stage3 tarball that
you want and gotten from anywhere you choose to get it, and unpacked any
place you feel like putting it. It will then run
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
James is our embedded guy. No-one knows exactly what James does, but it
involves teeny weeny systems with less RAM than your wristwatch, and
somehow Gentoo runs on it. I think it's $MAGIC, he will say it is
$SCIENCE, I won't argue.
My X
On 03/04/2013 20:44, James wrote:
i486interesting
I would point out that there has been much discussion
(gentoo-dev and elsewhere) bout changing the install
manuals to system-rescue based. Over the years the installation
options have mutiplied, to say the least. It
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