Re: [Fwd: DL Installer]
Trent W. Buck wrote: Does Ubiquity support installing Debian? yes. If not, is anyone working on it? not that I'm aware of, and I also think it's useless. From the Debian point of view, we should only have one installer infrastructure. An implementation of that can be seen in the different modes d-i has, a text modus and a graphical modus. Apart from the graphical bling, all options, how it works and the look and feel of both modes are identical. This is a great strength, since you only need to support/test/document/$whatever one backend. That's also why live-installer is made as a udeb to hook into d-i, and not beeing a reinvention of the wheel, so that all the d-i framework is used except the difference of not bootstrapping the system but unpacking the squashfs. For a future 'click-on-your-desktop'-installer, the same should be kept in mind. For the text-mode installer, depending on what is better, either doing kexec to launch d-i, or doing a loop-mount of the d-i initrd, chroot into it, and launch it there from a terminal window. A year ago, the d-i graphical guy said, that the graphical d-i mode could be easily recompiled to work as a standalone application (it needs to be linked against gtk, rather than gtk directfb stuff in order to run on ordinary X11). I've not heard anything new on that. Would be nice if anyone has time to look into that though. Regards, Daniel -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: [Fwd: DL Installer]
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trent W. Buck wrote: Does Ubiquity support installing Debian? yes. If not, is anyone working on it? not that I'm aware of, and I also think it's useless. I agree. Ubiquity doesn't support md RAID or LVM; and its Hardy version has accessibility issues in its timezone widget. And as you say: [...] we should only have one installer infrastructure. [d-i is interface-agnostic.] Agreed, but my understanding was that *right now*, d-i doesn't have a click-on-your-desktop mode. I meant to imply in my previous post that Ubiquity might be a short-term kludge (rather than a permanent solution) to address the OP's needs until d-i is ready. A year ago, the d-i graphical guy said, that the graphical d-i mode could be easily recompiled to work as a standalone application (it needs to be linked against gtk, rather than gtk directfb stuff in order to run on ordinary X11). I've not heard anything new on that. Would be nice if anyone has time to look into that though. Perhaps the OP should contact the d-i people directly and discuss click-on-your-desktop support (including bounties) with them. ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: [Fwd: DL Installer]
Marco Amadori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 05 July 2008, 08:41:19, Trent W. Buck wrote: 3. Ubuntu-style installer This is where you boot into a graphical Debian Live system and run a wizard-based program which installs and configures the live system, all the time remaining inside the live graphical environment. This is currently NOT possible with Debian Live. Does Ubiquity support installing Debian? If not, is anyone working on it? Nobody even tried to port it, but maybe it could work with some care. Evenmore, the planned way to handle installing from live running it was chrooting into d-i filesystem and then go to install type 2. And porting graphical gtk-directfb installer to gtk X. I think we can avoid the recompile right now. I'll look into that. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
Re: [Fwd: DL Installer]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent W. Buck) writes: A year ago, the d-i graphical guy said, that the graphical d-i mode could be easily recompiled to work as a standalone application (it needs to be linked against gtk, rather than gtk directfb stuff in order to run on ordinary X11). I've not heard anything new on that. Would be nice if anyone has time to look into that though. Perhaps the OP should contact the d-i people directly and discuss click-on-your-desktop support (including bounties) with them. In three weeks I'll be starting a project that I'd like to use this, so I'll probably work on that. I doubt it can enters Lenny but I'll try to make it. -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. ___ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
