hello list,

I remember that there was talk at one time about providing a mechanism
in dyne:bolic to install to hard disk without the assistance of
another operating system. I'm looking around, and I found this
information from jaromil:

starting from the next version, this operation is substituted with a
simple command: 'grubconfig' which will prompt you an installation
wizard for computers that have no operating system installed yet (and no
bootloader, indeed).

so do I sitll need to format a partition, dock the installation, etc.,
or does grubconfig do this for me? I'm assuming that I'll still need
to create the partition...this was all I could find from looking at
the script:

 mkdir -p $TMP/mnt
        mount -o sync $sel $TMP/mnt
        grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=$TMP/mnt $sel
        # now let's guess how the device is called in grub.
        # i approach the problem in a different way than conversion
        rm -f $TMP/grubselect_choice
        touch $TMP/mnt/00grubconfig # to be found by grub find
        echo "find /00grubconfig\nquit" | grub --no-floppy --batch
1>$TMP/grubselect_choice 2>/dev/null
        grubsel=`cat $TMP/grubselect_choice | awk '/^ \(/ {print $1}'`
        rm -f $TMP/mnt/00grubconfig
        notice "installing GRUB on device $grubsel"
        cd $TMP/mnt/boot/grub
        if [ -r menu.lst ]; then mv menu.lst backup.menu.lst; fi
        cat <<EOF > menu.lst

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Josh Lawrence
http://www.hardbop200.com