<html><head></head><body>Nice work!!! Installers greatly expand a userbase. Ubuntu's first major work was a better installer than what Debian had. It was a risk that paid off. Kicked RedHat to clean up their mess, too.<br><br>Everything is always in development. Stable just means it's been forgotten or about to be replaced.<br><br>Like I told my students, "If you don't crash the cluster nodes occasionally, you're not pushing things hard enough."<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 7, 2020 4:42:15 PM EST, David Jackson via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hey Everyone,<div><br></div><div>So I'm an Arch Linux fan, and I've been working on a couple of scripts: 1) Darchi (Dave's ARCH Installer) and 2) Farchi (FastARCHInstaller)</div><div><br></div><div>Arch doesn't have a graphical installer. Normally, one installs the system by hand. Or using a personal script. I'm doing the latter...</div><div><br></div><div>Right now I'm just trying to get "farchi.sh" working well, and if anyone is interested, I'd like to ask for some alpha testers in Virtualbox or whatever. Darchi is intended to be more complex and handle more situations and flexibility. Farchi is intended to be edited by hand for whatever machine you're installing to. Then it is supposed to just work and give you a bootable system. (You still need to watch it and pay attention though!)</div><div><br></div><div>It's all still a massive WIP. So some days things will work and other days they'll be broken as hell. Here's the repo: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/deepbsd/darchi">https://github.com/deepbsd/darchi</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now that I'm sharing this for the first time, it occurs to me I should really have a stable branch and a development branch!!! Ooops!!</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, if anyone is willing to take a look and give me ideas, or even try things out, I would be very grateful! Many thanks in advance!!</div><div><br></div></div>
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