talk to igli on freenode as he's the author of a Gentoo based installer named Gen2, perhaps he will be interested in this project. You can checkout current sources at git@213.131.245.114:gent2.git.
I hope this won't be another GLI failed project but i have faith it won't. On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 21:18 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote: > This is a post-FOSDEM call for people with interest for a Gentoo > text-based installer. > > If you are a developer, or Gentoo user, and feel like spending some time > on (possibly) creating a text-based installer for Gentoo in cooperation > with others, please contact me (off-list). > > During FOSDEM, I've been asked by a developer to share efforts on a > text-based installer for Linux distributions. There is a fair share of > work already done, but for the Gentoo case, certain pieces will be > missing. I am looking for someone to take the lead in using the > existing efforts to craft a scenario for the installer that performs the > Gentoo Linux installation e.g. from the livecd. > > I do not wish to start a discussion on wether or not an installer makes > sense. I do not wish to replace the installation handbook at all > either. It has been brought to my attention that an installer (that > also can be pre-configured with the right options) is useful for certain > scenarios, and I would like to give it a shot to see how easy such thing > could be provided. > > The installer in mind here, would also possibly work for Gentoo Prefix > bootstraps, for which we would use a bootstrap cd. > >
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