On Friday 11 January 2008, Qian Qiao wrote: > ack to the installation CD issue, undoubtably, having a nice working > installation CD for gentoo is desirable, but is it really needed? We > are here to do what we are best at. > > LiveCD creators, Knoppix, for example, are good at creating liveCDs > and keeping hardware support on those CDs up-to-date etc etc, we > should take advantage of it. > > Gentoo has a huge package repository, I'd much rather see the devs > focus on making that better, cos that's what they are good at.
Reading this, I had a thought: Most of the stuff available in gentoo comes from some upstream place in the grand Free Software tradition. Considering that an installation LiveCD is really just a temporary bootable image that writes stuff to the disk (and that stuff happily turns out to be a permanent bootable image), how about we just treat Knoppix as an upstream package and add a relatively simple program to do the installation? Essentially, it will ask some questions and unpack a stage 3/4 then tell the user to go and read 'man emerge' -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
