Re: Calamares Installer on the website?
Hello Holger
On 2020/12/19 21:03, Holger Wansing wrote:
> I gave it a try these days, and it looks like a good alternative to our
> debian-installer, at least for some user groups (for example unexperienced
> end-users or people, who are new to Debian).
> Of course, it only supports only a subset of all architectures (since we only
> have live images for i386 and amd64, at least ATM).
The good news is that Calamares itself compiles on a bunch of different
architectures already, it just needs some more integration. I was hoping
to find some time to do so for arm64 and mips64 for buster, but due to
the avalanche of stuff that was 2020 I suppose it's going to end up
having to wait for bookwork. I even got the mips64 image mostly
installing on a Loongson board
[https://jonathancarter.org/2020/02/13/initial-experiments-with-the-loongson-pi-2k/].
Not sure which other architectures would be useful. In the case of the
Loongson board, it needs some more bits to get into the upstream kernel
before we could release an official image for it. The rpi4 shows some
promise for the future too with more bits becoming free. I guess for an
initial version it would depend on the user first performing a local
UEFI setup, and we'll sacrifice some of the existing i386 images too,
since that architecture is also becoming increasingly specialised.
Not sure if/which of the other architectures would be useful?
> (Also, I have already proposed to mention the Calamares Installer in the
> release-notes for Bullseye as well, that's
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977417).
>
> I prepared a first proposal (attached).
>
> Thoughts?
It was mentioned in the buster release notes
[https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#debian-live]
- but (clearly) no one ever reads those :)
-Jonathan
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