raffy wrote:Am still at a loss how remaster fits the installer - is this a pre-install option for the advanced install? Or an installer part 2 (customized setup)?
I don't know what technosaurus was thinking when he wrote the suggestion of the idea, but, the instant I read it, I too was at a loss for a few seconds, for it struck me as both a flood of beauty and an earthquake of genius.
The beauty of it is that combining the two functions breaks down, or at least softens, the Microsoft-like categorical divide between the person who made the distro and the person who is trying it. After all, in both remaster and install, the essential intent is to teleport the entire distro from one person's machine and mind to another's.
The genius of it manifested, to my mind, on several fronts in 1-2-3-4 fashion. One: if the two functions are implemented in a single executeable, then this enables the sharing of code between implementation of the two functions, in which there is quite a bit of overlap, thus furthering the Puppy philosophy of smaller-is-better. Two and three and four: once the possibility of blending the two functions into a single code file occurs, further ideas suggest themselves like chain-lightning: "Remaster from the currently-running installation," rather than having to first shoehorn everything into a temporary remaster subdir, with all the pitfalls that entails; "Clone the currently-running installation" which would preserve the existing bookmarks, network settings and so forth; and "Create the installation straight from the .iso." This would...in fact, all three would...eliminate the need to burn a CD.
No doubt, there are other possibilities I haven't thought of.
raffy wrote:Sorry, I have no idea how to handle gtkdialog.
And you think I do
? The first prototype screen, is my first-ever foray into gtkdialog3, and you can see in my exchange with t and gyro above the incomplete state of my bash knowledge. However, I am quite mighty in similar older languages, e.g. DOS batchfiles and the Clipper dbms (still the best text-based table-oriented programming language there ever was),...so...this looks like an excellent opportunity for me to learn gtkdialog3 and bash, both at the same time. This is what has stimulated me to action.
raffy wrote:What I can recall is that the CD remaster fails at that stage when gtkdialog (?) could not show a CD in my eeePC.
OK, thanks for the heads-up, I'll watch out for that. I have an Atom-based Mini-9 for which I am currently constructing a custom distro, so this issue of a lack of a CD drive affects me too. Though, I regret to inform you, mine has 2GB of ram and I intend to tune the kernel specifically for 2GB (I saw where your Atom board carries only 1GB).
raffy wrote:@SHS: Good new layout, although please don't forget that the two-click option consists of "Choose the Drive" then press "Go".
Right-ee-o, I savvy. With logic to decide when physical ram is so small that a full install is necessary, otherwise a frugal install.
And now to go dance some more on the shoulders of giants...