> Hello, > > On the download pages I found this interesting choice for AMD64:: > Boot Media Admin CD:: > https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ > > Anyone know what an .admin cd. is? Anyone tested it yet? Hmm I hadn't seen it, but it seems pretty similar to the minimal installation CD, except it has a different logo. In fact, it calls itself a «minimal installation CD», boots in exactly the same way (boot prompt, keymap choice, loading tons of modules, etc.)
So I'm guessing it has a few more things than the standard ISO, maybe some things that were deemed unnecessary for the minimal install, but that may be useful, I don't know, if you mess up your bootloader, or maybe it has some statically compiled binaries that you can copy and use on your main system if something is broken... But that's just a guess. The easiest way to know the difference may be to mount the ISOs, the SquashFSs inside, and compare the files... If you want to try it, you can do: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G -hda admincd.iso -enable-kvm Thanks for the question. Now I'm curious too :-D João Miguel
