Re: [MiNT] Gentoo Installer? (PLEASE: NO DAYDREAMING IN THIS THREAD PLEASE!)

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 21:17 +0100, Kåre Andersen wrote:
> 2010/3/23 George Nakos <ggn@hol.gr>:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  Ever  since  Alan  got his Gentoo snapshot out, I'm like "oh neat! I
> >  have  to  try  this  out!". To be honest though, the install process
> >  kind  of  turns me off. Install easymint then untar gentoo on top of
> >  it?
> 
> I have been running this for a while now and i like it!  So, just a
> quick comment:
> 
> There is no need to install all of easymint. You need mke2fs, tar and
> gzip. A mint kernel and a shell (i suggest conholio) is also useful...
> Thats about it.
> Boot to shell or aes, mke2fs on the partition you want to use. tar
> zxvf Alans tarball. Voila.

Indeed. It's easy for the people who know how to do this without busting
things.

> An installer would be awesome tho :)

As mentioned in the earlier post. Definitely a to-do. 

Once we get to an initial public release I'd hope to have this all
ironed out.

Alan.