On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:28 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Those few times I've installed a new box from the LiveCD/DVD, I've
always done it networkless anyhow. That way, I get the box on the air
in a short time and *then* I can indulge my inner ricer. :)
Actually, we've done one better
On 04/02/2008, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Howells wrote:
I wasn't attempting to state This does not work!; merely expressing
that ~arch isn't really a supported platform. Dropping back to stable
isn't really a viable route, once your system is ~arch there's quite a
On Feb 4, 2008 10:26 PM, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're always welcome to build your own media if you don't like what we put
out.
Keep in mind that we are *volunteers*. We like the LiveCD, because it's easier
to build and test.
Some people just like to stick with the stuff
Peter Weber wrote:
Hello,
I now that Chris Gianelloni loves his LiveCD an the GUI-Installer and I
know that he don't like to accept changes he don't support personally.
But I do that know, so please don't kill me:
Gentoo should have again an Universal-CD again, because:
* Support for
I second this, in particular the part about including stage3 on the CD;
I'm always annoyed when, after downloading and burning the LiveCD, I
need to download the stage3, possibly from a laptop without working
wireless.
Sincerely,
Randall
Peter Weber wrote:
Hello,
I now that Chris Gianelloni
On Feb 4, 2008 11:36 PM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd love a minimal + stage3 + portage-snapshot + stuff you really need
(kernel sources, grub, maybe a syslogger)
You just described an Universal CD.
What I described wouldn't necessarily be a 700MB media.
Seems I have to
Thanks for your answer. I respect this fully!
I just thought that this was a good chance for starting a discussion.
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 16:18 -0600, Brent Baude wrote:
Peter and company,
It is important for you to understand that we, releng, are in the
process of 2008.0 right now. As
Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users
out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all
the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that.
Even users with high-speed connections want to stay independent and
free, relying on a
Peter and company,
It is important for you to understand that we, releng, are in the
process of 2008.0 right now. As such, it probably is not fair to
knowingly push our buttons given that we have entered the execution
phase of doing this work now. Gentoo folks, users and devs alike, felt
On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 PM, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That doesn't even make sense. A universal CD is nothing but a minimal plus
some
stuff. You can't merge them together, unless you're talking about getting rid
of
the minimal all together, and then that's even dumber.
I'm
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:33 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote:
That means less time taken and less stress for us. If you
don't like it, become a dev and volunteer for release engineering, and
build the
universal CDs yourself.
Copy n pasteing a config that would be the Universal CD is worth
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:49 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008 10:47 PM, Peter Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The LiveDVD includes stages and a snapshot.
Interesting and good, but the LiveDVD is, let us say the truth -
overkill.
A other good solution would be merging
Hello,
I now that Chris Gianelloni loves his LiveCD an the GUI-Installer and I
know that he don't like to accept changes he don't support personally.
But I do that know, so please don't kill me:
Gentoo should have again an Universal-CD again, because:
* Support for
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:58 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
That doesn't even make sense. A universal CD is nothing but a minimal plus
some
stuff. You can't merge them together, unless you're talking about getting rid
of
the minimal all together, and then that's even dumber.
--
Andrew
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:49 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008 10:47 PM, Peter Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The LiveDVD includes stages and a snapshot.
Interesting and good, but the LiveDVD is, let us say the truth -
overkill.
A other good solution would be merging
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 23:50 +0100, Peter Weber wrote:
Hours for, mhhh, five lines of code?
Five lines of code, gathering the distfiles together, and lots and lots
of testing.
Seriously, buddy. Do me a favor and quit responding. You've shown that
you don't really have a clue what's involved in
Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:28 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Those few times I've installed a new box from the LiveCD/DVD, I've
always done it networkless anyhow. That way, I get the box on the air
in a short time and *then* I can indulge my inner ricer. :)
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