On Aug 6, 2005, at 1:16 AM, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
* no lvm or software raid support
If the installer detects an already-present lvm/raid, will it allow
you to use it for your disks? The reason that I ask this is I am
wondering if it is still possible to perform the necessary setup
steps for these outside the installer, then simply select them within
the installer.
Of course, to offset these bad things, we have a few features that are
available with the installer that were not available previously:
* livecd-kernel - the installer will install the kernel from the
LiveCD into
the new install so that you don't have to wait for genkernel to
do its
thing. It is installed as a package with emerge so that certain
dependencies
are satisfied (virtual/alsa for example)
* GRP w/o an extra CD - the installer will quickpkg and emerge -K
packages from
the LiveCD instead of using prebuilt binary packages. This
obsoletes the GRP
CD, which will probably disappear in the next release.
* dynamic stage3 - the installer can build a stage3 equivalent in
the chroot
directory from the packages on the CD. This will be useful down
the road for
networkless installs. Currently, there is no snapshot on the
LiveCD for
space reasons, but play with it anyway.
Along with the GTK frontend, there is also a dialog-based frontend.
This is
useful for doing remote installs via SSH. gli-dialog also supports
some things
that the GTK frontend doesn't and vice versa. If not using gnome, the
installer can be started by running 'installer' from a terminal.
This will try
to launch the GTK frontend first with the 'installer-gtk' script.
If this
fails, it will fall back to the dialog installer with the
'installer-dialog'
script. If you wish to use the dialog frontend, you can run
'installer-dialog'
directly.
For those of you that want the LiveCD, but don't want the overhead of
running X/Gnome, you will be able to start the CD with "gentoo nox"
and it will skip the actual starting of gdm, so you can have your
command-line goodness.
Now, for the *most* important part...reporting bugs. Gentoo's
bugzilla has a
special sub-section for the installer. When you click the link to
enter a new
bug report, select "Gentoo Linux" and then "GLI" from the
"Component" list.
Please search for the bug you're reporting *before* creating a new
bug. We
would much rather see "me too" comments, or even the much more
silent act of
adding yourself to the bug's CC, than having to deal with tons of
duplicate
bugs. When you do encounter an error in the installer, try to grab
/tmp/installprofile.xml and /var/log/install.log from the LiveCD
environment.
We may request them when you file a bug.
Please, please, please, please do not file bugs about the LiveCD
under the GLI component. Also, don't file GLI bugs under the "Gentoo
LiveCD" product.
I have created a bug especially for issues with the LiveCD.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101540
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux
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