On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > 1) I assume most people who are crazy enough to 'install gentoo on > thousands of machines' use some kind of image based installation > process and not a color-by-numbers install vis-a-vis the handbook? > Has anyone written a Gentoo installer that is not image based? > 1.5) There is a hidden assumption here that image based installations > would not work for everyone (likely due to a lack of the 'right' > image; too old, wrong arch, etc...) > 2) Has anyone looked at just taking an existing installation framework > (d-i? kickstart?) and just making it run different stuff? I honestly > have not looked at either (someone else at work does that thank god) > but it can't be outside of the realm of impossibility...
i dont particularly care what installer we utilize, it'd just be nice to have a helpful gui/curses based approach available as an option. i have toyed with anaconda in the past, but my personal experience has been that our gui python one was better. that and the insistence on redhat-only tools (like rpm) is obnoxious. -mike
