Hi, although we talked at GUADEC, answering here for the sake of completeness. On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 10:15 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 01:05 +0300, Andres Gomez wrote: > > H > > Xan (López) pointed us (Adrián and me) in this direction with the idea > > of helping to build the "GNOME OS Installer" > > Following up from my previous mail, particularly on the subject of an > installer: > > * At a high level, what makes me uncomfortable a bit is that it's a > lot of work that directly competes/overlaps with "distributions" > as they exist today. That's not to say it doesn't make sense > to do - it does. I just want to be able to maintain an "elevator > pitch" for what we're doing in GNOME for someone who is running > Debian or whatever today. If we can say the effort is about > improving quality in the tarballs/git repositories in GNOME, > that helps. ... Agree. ... > * In order to do this, we need to be building kernels, and fixing > up the GRUB management. ... Agree. ... > * Deciding whether the installer is a live system or not is extremely > important. ... I think having a live system is quite desirable, but I would start just with a non live one. ... > * Should keep it extremely simple - partition disk, > lay out filesystem tree, install bootloader, reboot into initial > setup ... Yep, I was already following the mock ups in: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/Installer It is a really simple installer. ... > * To what degree are you considering reusing existing code? ... I have no intention of reinventing the wheel so, as much as possible. Br. -- Andres Gomez Computer Science Engineer mailto:agomez igalia com http://blogs.igalia.com/agomez/category/igaliacom/ IGALIA, S.L. http://www.igalia.com
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