non urgent feature request? Non-GUI installer mode?

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi, just a request for the feature request list. Quite possibly this is a non-starter, but in case it is 'really easy':

It would be fantastic if there were some boot command line options for alternate install config.

specifically, a non-gui (text only) install mode.

I find, in some cases where I'm working on remote KVM the GUI installer is very painfully slow to work with. In contrast text based installers are far less difficult to work with.

Clearly if this is difficult to implement, it will go to the bottom of the request list; I'm sure it is not pressing or high priority. But if it were trivial to implement, it would be nice to have as a non-default install option for ProxVE.

Thanks!

Tim

 

[tom]

the non-gui install is already here, its the Debian installer.

see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Squeeze

currently there is no plan to re-invent this.

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi Tom, sounds good. I wasn't sure if any features were lost via this method you linked (adding ProxVE repos to a clean debian install base) or not.

Definitely not reinventing the wheel is a good thing!

Thanks,
Tim

 

[tom]

if you install via Debian, you need to partition by yourself. especially the LVM setup is a bit tricky as the wizard always take the whole space, means you cannot do LVM snapshot backups.