Ananth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> based on the responses for the package management, i think we will be using
> the pkgbuild based system in the future. Moinak, what kind of help would you
> need with packaging the softwares ?
>
> the next main issue for most people is the hard disk installation of Belenix.
>
> currently, there is a perl script which asks minimal questions to the user to
> dump belenix to the hard disk (quite similar to installing knoppix).
>
> going forward, what kind of installer would you like ? (under ideal
> conditions)
>
> - GUI installer
> - console installer
> - manual installer
> - all of the above ? :=)
>
>
> GUI installer:
> is there any existing installing program that we can port?
> if not, perhaps we could start a small project to write one.
>
I hope you have checked out this : http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/
Project Caiman is building an opensolaris GUI installer. The download
for the demo link is
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install-x86.pkg
> console installer:
> do we continue to maintain the current installer ?
> would anyone be interested in having a complete curses based installer
> similar to debian/*bsd ?
>
> manual installer:
> provide all the tools and d/l the necessary/required packages from the net
> (think gentoo)
>
> any volunteers to help with the installation part of belenix ? i have a few
> ideas that i could mail across later.also, will we be having 2 versions of
> belenix - a live-cd version and an installable version or just a single
> live-cd with an option to install to hard disk/usb/wateva ?
>
> AnanthS
>
I think it should be a single CD (DVD?) with a link on the desktop
saying "click here to install", that way GUI handling will be easier, as
we already have the interface up. This is exactly like Ubuntu.(and lots
others too, IIRC)
>
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Cheers,
Abhishek
