[Vectorlinux-devel] Installer news

[M0E L. <m0...@gm...>]

Hi all

Here is the latest news to the installer.
I have decided to drop the automatic partitioning option.
I know everyone was getting pumped up about it, but I feel there are too
many risks involved, and we simply may not be able to support all the
complaints about how the installer borked somebody's hard drives and
ended up not installing after all.

The main reason behind this is that my test results are a hit and miss.
It would work 2/3 times, and then I'd end up with some weird results.
I do believe the embedded gparted utility will suffice for now for
custimized partitioning.

I will keep the code in there, just in case we want to revive it in the
future.

ANOTHER CHANGE
I have unleashed grub as a bootloader option.
This one is kind of tricky... although, a lot easier to setup than lilo
is IMO.
The iffy part is that it is grub2, I couldn't get any support for old
grub @ #grub in freenode, so I thought grub2 would just as good as any.

I have tested in VM and grub does work for me... so it is time for you
guys to start testing
I managed to get the installed system to boot and everything.

I'd like to get you guys to weigh in on these decissions,
good/bad/suggestions... shoot.

@ Uelsk8s
I need a new ISO with the following things in it.
+ Include the packages in
http://vlcore.vectorlinux.com/svn/vinstall/deps in the ISO
+ Include the new grub2 package in the initrd (i need the grub command
available during installation)
+ I noticed on first boot, there is no default xsession pre-selected.
So if there is no xterm, x fails... we need to either pre-select
something and/or add xterm so that the failsafe session starts up.

That's all I got for now...
I await new iso and bug reports.