Hey everyone, I found a page that confirms my suspicions about using deboostrap/chroot to install on hardware. It basically uses the same principles as the script I am using to build the OS. Though I was actually searching for something else :)
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/426/Installing_new_Debian_systems_with_debootstrap So... I think it would be very possible to use the current script (with modifications of course) to setup a NEW computer. I think we can write a very simple UI using dialog/zenity and simply 'copy' the current OS' packages over (minus a few ones we wont need, such as nodm and live-boot) and simply chroot into the hardware we are installing on after running a quick partition program. based on a couple of choices. Like: 1. *Erase EVERYTHING* and install ToriOS ONLY 2. Install alongside ${DETECTED_OS} 3. Manual partition and install So this is definitely something I will be looking into, especially now that I have some hardware to install ToriOS on in every single way I can think to try. I can safely do crazy things to it, because well... that is its only purpose (for now). Since I am currently adding a lot of error checking, and cleaning up the process for building the ISO I will be putting the code on github soon. I think it would be a wise decision to make a ToriOS github page, so we can host everything related to ToriOS there... or at least link to it. I will be putting the script for ToriOS on GitHub soon, well... when I am satisfied with the quality of it for others to use. @Nio Do you mind if I include the 9w directory with it, since the script uses it? Also, once this script is refined to a point I am happy with I will copy it and attempt to modify a few simple things to see if I can reasonably set up an automated script to install torios from a chroot. As, this would be a good second option to have, since I personally always have a separate /home partition and would like that feature to be available for ToriOS at some point. If it is too complicated I may wait to do it until 1.0 comes out.... but if it is a fairly simple change to the current version I can write a simple front end from Zenity that asks a couple questions and lets the user configure everything the way they want right from the get-go. I can make a archives.tar.xz of all the /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb files and then extract it into the new install's /var/cache/apt/archives/ and we could include a lot of languages, and some extras an still stay under a CD limit (i think). -- Regards
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