On 11/18/2010 03:08 PM, Mathias Gug wrote: > Excerpts from Robbie Williamson's message of Thu Nov 18 13:34:58 -0500 2010: >> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:22 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08:47AM -0600, Robbie Williamson wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:49:38AM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >>>>>> I think this screen is a good idea if in fact tasksel is moved to after >>>>>> the first boot. >>>>> We used to have a two-stage installer and it was a nightmare to maintain >>>>> for several reasons. Since we moved to a single-stage installer several >>>>> years back, we've burned all the necessary code with fire and enjoyed >>>>> it. Please don't make me go back to that. >>>> What if the Server team maintained the 2nd stage? Then we'd be making >>>> life easier for you, right? ;) >>> Er. :-) >>> >>> (In seriousness, any good-quality second stage would require some level >>> of cooperation from the first stage. We tried that and it was awful.) >> So I see the 1st stage as just installing the minimal server, then we >> boot to a login prompt...user logs in and can either do his/her business >> as desired or launch the 2nd stage (which they are told about in a 1st >> boot motd-type message). >> > I'd add that the 2nd stage would just be tasksel. > > I don't know what the 2-stage installer was like back in the old days. > The proposal discussed at UDS was: > > * to have the installer create a minimal-lean install (ie 1st > stage - same thing as of today). It creates a basic working system > which upon reboot can be configured for its final role (either by a > sysadmin via a console or ssh login [1] or a configuration management > system such as puppet, chef, cfengine, shell script, etc...). > > * Remove the tasksel step in the installer and add a note in the > motd pointing to tasksel so that a sysadmin can finish the > configuration of the system after reboot (as outlined in [1] above). > > This would provide a similar user experience to the one provided by > the Ubuntu cloud images on EC2 and UEC. Once an instance is started > the following text is displayed upon login into it via ssh: > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > At the moment, only the core of the system is installed. To tune the > system to your needs, you can choose to install one or more > predefined collections of software by running the following > command: > > sudo tasksel --section server > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > A similar message would be displayed when a user logs into the > newly-installed system (either via console or ssh). >
Hi, If that what you were thinking of a "second stage installer". Then I think you might want something in between, functionailty wise, d-i and a yast type program. But simpler. chuck -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
