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From: Steven Ruckdashel <steve.ruckdashel@gmail.com>
To: 9front@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Installing 9front
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:51:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMhDMRS9CwoTSL1oZhq4TjSG-G7Ju0cjhdpH4cLLASJn26LvEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731125919.1835ca55@vardo.ethans.dre.am>

I think most people that would benefit from the streamlined installer
are trying to install within QEMU. Maybe making an install option for
this and having the installer do a complete setup with no additional
input.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
<eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:30:05 +0200
> Uriel <uriel@berlinblue.org> wrote:
>
>> Maybe we could have a 'fake' install environment somehow that is easy
>> to reset and where you can run the whole installer system inside a rio
>> window. Not sure how practical and difficult this could be to arrange,
>> but seems like it should be feasible and should make it much easier to
>> polish the installer script(s).
>
> Wat? The installer already runs in a rio window on a normal (I think)
> live-CD system. I'm fairly confident I could pull the install scripts
> onto my running system and use them to, say, install to a USB drive or
> whatever. Hm... I think if you wanted the option of killing the
> installer to get a completely fresh start you'd just have to clean up
> some scripts in /tmp.
>
>
> --
> This is obviously some strange usage of the
> word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-30 11:09 Uriel
2012-07-30 14:57 ` sl
2012-07-30 18:30   ` Uriel
2012-07-30 20:45     ` sl
2012-07-31 11:59     ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-07-31 12:51       ` Steven Ruckdashel [this message]
2012-07-30 16:22 ` Matthew Veety
2012-07-30 18:32   ` Uriel
2012-07-30 19:32   ` Julius Schmidt
2012-07-30 23:09     ` Matthew Veety
2012-07-30 23:14       ` Julius Schmidt
2012-07-30 23:57         ` Matthew Veety
2012-07-31 11:48   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-07-31 11:46 ` Ethan Grammatikidis

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