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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Charles Lacour wrote: |
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> First, could you post some md5sums for the various images? I got one of your earlier |
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> CD images of your own site and it was corrupt - no big deal for the most part, but I didn't |
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> discover it until I was unable to download and burn another for a day or so. (And in light |
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> of the recent trojan in openssh, my paranoia level is a bit higher than usual right now.) |
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Ok. md5sums made. |
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> Second, would you consider building an image that has the source to all of it's packages |
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> on it (or at least all the ones in the basic Gentoo install)? I'd find a CD I could install basic |
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> Gentoo from without having Net connectivity fairly handy, and my test machine is a P1, so |
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> the 686 gentoo CD won't work for me. |
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The CDs have the binaries on them. The only thing in source is the |
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kernel (which might be needed for strange driver and kernel configuration |
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issues to establish net connectivity). With the CD you can bring up |
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networking (default) and then download any of the sources you might want to install. That way the |
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sourcecode is recent rather than having some stale stuff on the cd. |
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> (I also wouldn't complain if you bzipped the images - I was rather startled when the tgentoo |
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> 0.3.1 bz2 file expanded to 700 meg. I didn't think .iso images were that compressible.) |
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That was an early release using uncompressed ISO files. The new editions |
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use zisofs. All files are already compressed and will be decompressed |
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when accessed on the fly. Running bzip on then does not give much |
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anymore. |
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> I've been playing around with making bootable CDs, so I'll definitely check out your |
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> LiveCD ebuild. |
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Thanks. |
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