Bug 9791 – text based installer

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Scott Beck 2002-10-27 18:29:01 UTC]

Hi,

I posted this to the mailing list and was asked to post it here.
I just finished a text based installer for gentoo. It's written in shell
and I have tested it to a limited extent (it always works for me). I was
wondering if people would be interested in it.

Cheers,

Scott

[Comment 1 Scott Beck 2002-10-27 18:29:52 UTC]

Created attachment 5097 [details]
text based gentoo installer CD

[Comment 2 Scott Beck 2002-10-27 18:59:35 UTC]

Forgot to mention the file attached is a tar.bz2. There are two shell scripts in
it. functions.sh and install.sh. To test put both install.sh and functions.sh in
'/' on the rescue image on the CD you want to test with. I used vmware to test it.

Todo is to make it accept a few options:
    --auto-install FILE  A file that basiaclly gives all the information
                         the script needs to install Gentoo.
    --help               Dislpay this help.
    --noclear            Do not clear the screen when creating menus.

Also Todo is to clean up the code a bit and make a generic menu function (almost
done) for menu display.

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-09-09 15:32:54 UTC]

Gack, bugs assigned to release@ have gotten ignored; I'll assign this one to me.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-12-30 21:08:32 UTC]

*** Bug 36865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-12-30 21:09:33 UTC]

also, http://glis.sf.net/

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-04-12 11:32:18 UTC]

i'd say GLIS

[Comment 7 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-05-12 09:48:32 UTC]

not really related to us anymore since we now have an installer project, re-assigning

[Comment 8 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) 2004-05-15 12:53:33 UTC]

Probably not needed due to the much more advanced installer project in the works

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:44 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.