Hans <linux <at> interworld.net.au> writes:
> > OK, so we need an expert here. Any takers? Make a few dollars and get > > famous for writing (hacking) a gentoo installer for the > > gentoo-commoners? > > Anyone? James > I don't really think that there is a requirement for Ruby. Today's Yast2 > is simply a GUI like grsync that calls on command line utilities. This > can be done using the GTK C library. The Yast running in a terminal > appears to be a ncurses interface to the same command line utilities. > I could, with some help from a Bash coder, create a USB stick that runs > Gentoo and a Bash script to install Gentoo on a hard drive. I have about > 80% done as Cut & Paste "script". My bottleneck is running fdisk and > feeding commands to fdisk from within a bash script. > Running Gentoo from a USB stick with Grub static is no problem if you > don't mind that its sloooow. I use 2TB USB drive with Gentoo Xfce > installed to back up my families Laptops. Plug in the USB drive. Power > on the Laptop, Login as Laptop-1. Click the Backup or Restore Icon to > start the required rsync session. Have lunch or surf the net. > Will make a image for a USB stick with or without Xfce if someone is > seriously interested. This USB stick require DHCP from a router for > networking and have only VGA video. My specific needs (and something many others will like) is to end up with the base-install of (2) HD/SSD running btrfs-raid-1 and all the appropriate configs completed (gpt, grub-2, fstab/mtab and mbr/efi issues included. That, automated and open-sourced is what I'm willing to *pay* for. If you are interested in that, drop me some private email. I have zero issues with normal handbook installations. btrfs-raid1 is really the only option I have strong interest in, just so you know. I am sympathetic to and understand both sides of the issues. I just hope that the larger *nix community does not see this 'lack of an installer' as a mean spirited issue, as I do not believe it is. It is a confounding issue. I'll surely test what you offer. These links might help [1,2,3]. Maybe Michal will help too, as he seems to be a Osuse-Gentoo type of hack, with some expertise in Yast and it's components. 'eix libyui' hth, James [1] http://libyui.sourceforge.net/ [2] https://github.com/libyui/libyui [3] http://michal.hrusecky.net/2011/08/libyui-in-gentoo/
