Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Pierre Chapuis wrote: Le Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:17:48 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck a écrit : Does anyone have thoughts, ideas, requirements, ...? Sounds good. I've worked with FAI (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/), which is powerful but a bit too complex. Its concepts are still good

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:17:48 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck a écrit : > Does anyone have thoughts, ideas, requirements, ...? Sounds good. I've worked with FAI (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/), which is powerful but a bit too complex. Its concepts are still good: - Hooks at many times of the

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Tim Gelter wrote: Dieter Plaetinck wrote: Hi all, I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically configures your xorg etc. I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfile (disk layout, pac

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: Hi all, I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically configures your xorg etc. I rather mean an installer that you pass

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Tim Gelter
Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Hi all, > I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. > With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically > configures your xorg etc. > I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfile (disk > layout, package list,..

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Hi all, > I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. > With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically > configures your xorg etc. > I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfi

[arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool

2008-12-18 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
Hi all, I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically configures your xorg etc. I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfile (disk layout, package list,...) so it can work non-interactive