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Dominique Michel wrote:
> When an user or a potential user read it and want to do a networkless install,
> it will just use the Live CD install, and just get in trouble. It is even worse
> when many Linux magazines will have this CD. And you cannot argue at it is just
> to use catalyst or to burn a CD from a stage 3, when the doc say "a bootable CD
> that contains everything you need to get Gentoo Linux up and running."
That statement is still true. I have done 3 networkless installations
for this release, without a problem. I used the installer. Using it you
get your box up and running fast and convenient, so what exactly is the
problem? It's not like you can't get Gentoo running without a network
connection anymore.
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Kind Regards,
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 developer
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