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Bug 3191 - Suggestion: friendly install script for newbies
Summary: Suggestion: friendly install script for newbies
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Víctor Prada (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-05-29 14:04 UTC by temperanza
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description temperanza 2002-05-29 14:04:57 UTC
Hi. I'd like to bring up an idea of a simple bash, python or ncurses text
installer. It would be fully optional.

For a start, the installer could quite easily:

* help modprobe the correct network card, with a menu
  * help set up Internet addresses
* guide you through fdisk (or cfdisk), perhaps auto-partition
* help configure cflags and USE flags, with a menu
* customize a profile
  * choose between GRUB or LILO
  * choose a system logger
  * choose a cron
  * intelligently select filesystem utilities and other sysapps
* set up some users and passwords

And a lot more. ^_^ I'll take this on myself if no one else wants to, but I
don't script or program very well.
Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-02 06:00:37 UTC
Nicholas, I think cursingcow is a nice fix for this ;)
Comment 2 Nicholas Henke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-03 09:47:50 UTC
Yeah -- cursingcow ( in gentoo-src ) is doing almost all of these things. I am
hoping to start polishing it off soon, so if you would like to help test, please
let me know.
Comment 3 Charles Goodwin 2003-12-13 16:20:18 UTC
Check out the Gentoo Linux Install Script - http://glis.sf.net - which should be filed as a different bug.
Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:23:58 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.