What GLIS supports 2005.0 gentoo release

boydo

I notice on sourceforge that GLIS is inactive since quite a while. There is a 0.1 version and a beta 0.2.
Are either of these versions working with 2005.0 gentoo release?

thx

bk

nixnut · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:57 am Post subject:

esearch glis doesn't list anything, so looks like it's not in portage at all.
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boydo · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I can see that gentoo doesn't support it. Thats probably really the reason for the post. Since there is no 'official' scripted install, question is: Does GLIS (still?) work?

nixnut · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject:

One way to find out: try it :wink:

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boydo · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: Solved

Actually doing that right now! Seems to be chugging along fine. I was hoping not to have to repeat the R&D myself, as I don't have a huge amount of time but hey... I am doing a stage 3 install with custom kernel compiling as I type. I used glis and the livecd on an nfs share, and initiated the install booting from systemrestorecd. Since this cd (gentoo origin) supports an autostart script, would be nice to get glis on the cd, although just copying everything to a network share is quite acceptable. Then:

Put the glis config in a diskette, along with a small script to mount the shares and call glis, boot from the cd and type: linux arsource=/dev/fd0

Come back a day or so later for a completed gentoo install.

I don't know why glis is not supported or included right on the livecd. As a unix admin for a large multi-national corp, I would love to bring gentoo 'to work'. The regular install is great fun for the first couple of times, but in a corporate environment, it is unacceptably error-prone, and time-consuming.

I don't need a graphical install, but a supported scripted (kickstart, genstart? genstall?) install à la: linux gs=floppy, would be not only relatively simple to add to the distro, it is *essentiel* for the survival of gentoo.

IMHO.

bk