Dan McGee schrieb:
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
quickinst: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=blob;f=quickinst;h=23e41ccb... Is there anyone who actually uses this? If so, can you tell me why?
It's stated quickinst is meant for people who want to mkfs/mount their filesystems themselves, okay I understand that. But, as a "consequence" you can only install the base packages, your keyboard/time/.. settings don't go into /mnt/etc/rc.conf automatically, you need to install the bootloader manually (which means having to mount some things yourself, chroot etc.
What is the advantage of this over just using the normal installer and skipping the steps you don't want to do?
Because the normal installer is a manual process. You can't easily do a remote install on 30 machines with a dialog-based installer, while with quickinst that becomes quite easy.
I never used it, but I imagine that is its purpose. Dieter, didn't your original AIF design say that you can do automatic installations as well? Can you provide a quickinst equivalent based on AIF? If so, it can replace quickinst.