Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-11 Thread David Runge via arch-releng
Hi all, FYI, I have removed and banned the offender from the mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2021-July/004031.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2021-July/004032.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2021-July/004037.html This b

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-10 Thread David Runge via arch-releng
Hi Brent, On 2021-07-09 02:24:03 (-0400), brent s. via arch-releng wrote: > I'm in the middle of writing a tool that will do just this[0]. Much > like RedHat's Kickstart or Debian's preseed, it uses kernel > commandline options/parameters to fetch a configuration, parses that > configuration, and

[arch-releng] ?????? RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread George via arch-releng
fuck you --  -- ??: "Arch Linux Release Engineering"https://github.com/virtapi/installimage ;(my version) * https://github.com/hetzneronline/installimage ;(the hetzner version) This can be executed via any live linux, for example a custom arch PXE: *

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread Tim Meusel via arch-releng
There exists a nice solution to install different linux operating systems, installimage: * https://github.com/virtapi/installimage (my version) * https://github.com/hetzneronline/installimage (the hetzner version) This can be executed via any live linux, for example a custom arch PXE: * https://gi

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread dif via arch-releng
Doesn't Golang have a mechanism to run an external program from a program? I remember I wrote a short assembly code (just for the fun of it) to print invoice numbers rotated 90° on a dot-matrix Epson printer from a dBase program like 30 years ago. "C" was around of course, objects have not been

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread brent s. via arch-releng
On 7/9/21 3:09 AM, dif via arch-releng wrote: > (I'm not a programmer, but) wouldn't program sgdisk that belongs to the > gptfdisk package be enough to do the automated/scripted partitioning. > I'm pretty sure it is in the official ISO. At least, it was a few years > ago when I used it a few times.

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread dif via arch-releng
(I'm not a programmer, but) wouldn't program sgdisk that belongs to the gptfdisk package be enough to do the automated/scripted partitioning. I'm pretty sure it is in the official ISO. At least, it was a few years ago when I used it a few times. dif On 09.07.2021 0

[arch-releng] ?????? RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread George via arch-releng
fuck --  -- ??: "Arch Linux Release Engineering"

[arch-releng] ?????? RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-09 Thread George via arch-releng
fuck --  -- ??: "Arch Linux Release Engineering"

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-08 Thread brent s. via arch-releng
Whoops! Goofed. I meant to send this to the list, not to Li-Yu directly. Apologies, Li-Yu! Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install To: Li-Yu Yu From: brent s. Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 02:41:55 -0400 On 7/9/21 2:32 AM, Li-Yu Yu wrote: > brent s.

Re: [arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-08 Thread Li-Yu Yu via arch-releng
brent s. via arch-releng 於 2021年7月9日 週五 下午2:24寫道: > > Hey, all. > > One of the things that I feel limits Arch Linux is the lack of an > ability to kick off an unattended install. Sure, you can boot via PXE or > the like, but the actual install does not take place. Just FYI, maybe not what you want

[arch-releng] RFC: Automated Install

2021-07-08 Thread brent s. via arch-releng
Hey, all. One of the things that I feel limits Arch Linux is the lack of an ability to kick off an unattended install. Sure, you can boot via PXE or the like, but the actual install does not take place. I'm in the middle of writing a tool that will do just this[0]. Much like RedHat's Kickstart or