On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:49:41PM -0300, Rafael Martins <[email protected]> wrote: > When I started using Frugalware, I encouraged several friends to try, > but most of them just having problems with the installer. > > As the aim of these people was just to test, not just reporting the errors. > > Interestingly these people are interested in installing Frugalware > from the tarball fwchroot, without success. Then I had the idea to > develop this method, which may be interesting for more advanced users > who want a simple installation. > > With this tarball and a livecd the users might install a basic system, > without the need for recordable CDs, USB sticks or other media.
Yes, but a Frugalware livecd on its own already provides a method to give Frugalware a try - without even installing. :) > My idea was that if the project was approved, was built a tarball with > each release, and made available to users, along with the iso's > already existing. What about developing your script further, to work without a chroot tarball? I mean you could wget the pacman-g2 fpm, tar xf it, then run /path/to/pacman-g2.static --config /path/to/config, so it could download the packages directly. Such a script could then be invoked from almost any random Linux distro. An extra benefit would be that I do not need to generate a second chroot tarball for each release, either. ;) I mean something like Debian's debootstrap - I haven't tested but AFAIK it would even work from Frugalware. Does this something that make sense for you?
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