FWD: weekly debian-installer progress report
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From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:34:41 -0800
To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: weekly debian-installer progress report
It's been a pretty productive week. I hope to have a more impressive
demo system by next weekend, that operates in a chroot using busybox
and can pull udebs off of a mirror.
Done this week:
- retriever controller (aka "anna", for anna's not nearly apt) is
started, and works in a limited way, good enough for demo purposes.
- file retriever, which is the simplest possible retriever (it just
symlinks a file, rather like apt's file method).
- cdebconf now has a working frontend, and is usable.
- basic demo system, in which you can use the main menu to tell anna to
retrieve and unpack some more udebs, then see them appear on the main
menu. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0011/msg00629.html
- first stab at a busybox udeb.
- choose-mirror, a configuration tool for http/ftp/other retreivers has
been started, but needs a lot of work.
Still Todo:
- design [Joey Hess, debian-boot]
80% done. Enough to know what the big peices are
and how they fit together.
- udeb archive setup [James Troup, Anthony Towns, Jason Gunthorpe]
95% support in new package pools code. James is now waiting
for after 2.1r2, it seems.
- cdebconf (miniature debconf in C) [Randolph Chung, Anthony Towns]
In progress, has one working database backend and one
working text-based frontend.
- udpkg (tiny dpkg clone) [Randolph Chung, Joey Hess]
Usable. One todo item (localized descriptions)
- main-menu (main menu generator) [Joey Hess]
90% done (one non-trivial todo item)
- busybox integration [Erik Andersen]
First pass busybox udeb is ready.
http://people.debian.org/~andersee/
- network card detector [Glenn McGrath, David Whedon]
Pcidetect is written, detects PCI cards only. Needs
testing. David has another detector that uses libdetect
instead.
- other hardware detection [David Whedon]
David has written detectors for sound, ethernet, cd, cpu,
disk, and memory detection. All need testing.
- network setup [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Set up the network, via dhcp or via prompting;
implementor decides.
- retreiver control program [Joey Hess, Glenn McGrath]
About 10% done realistically, but it does work.
- file retreiver [Joey Hess]
100% done, such as it is. Probably not useful in real life
expcet in CD installs, but handy for the demo system.
- choose-mirror [Joey Hess]
Nearly 50% done, but entirely untested and broken.
- http retreiver [UNCLAMED]
Not started. Download udebs, other files from network.
- target media detector [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Just has to figure out what media to install to.
Probably trivial; most support already in the kernel.
- disk partitioner [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Some kind of a UI to let the user partition their
disks and decide what the partitions are used for.
- disk formatter [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Formats disks, turns on swap, etc.
- base system installer [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Installs the base system, probably from base.tgz
for now, and does any necessary setup.
- {lilo,grub} installer [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Sets up {lilo,grub}.
- kernel module udebs [Vaidhy]
Not started. We will need various sets of kernel modules;
one such set is NIC drivers. Each set goes in a udeb; there
probably has to be a system to build the whole kernel and
udebs.
- library reduction [Marcus Brinkmann]
Not started. There is code in the boot-floppies that should
be usable, but this is still one of the hardest parts.
- install media build system [UNCLAIMED]
Not started. Puts all the peices together and makes
install media.
- user documentation
Not started. (Waiting until we have something to document..)
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