[arch-releng] the future of quickinst

[Robson Roberto Souza Peixoto]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>
> wrote:
> > quickinst:
> >
> http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=installer.git;a=blob;f=quickinst;h=23e41ccbec63e7527b2006ffc3552b99510862c3;hb=80ca34643e1c3db5ac5bbc856590ae44b559a6a1
> > 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'm wondering if shouldn't just drop it.
> >
> > Note that with AIF it's quite easy to implement a "partial procedure",
> > which is a procedure to do one or a few specific things. (right now
> > there are partial procedures which let you do keymap/font selection,
> > disk/partition/filesystem config, and network setup).  I could add one
> >  to let the user just do package selection & installation, for
> > example.
> >
>

I use by same reason.


>
> > Dieter
>



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