Gentoo Archives: gentoo-installer

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:49:37
Message-Id: 1129834146.11559.15.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-installer] Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later? by John Walsh
1 On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 02:28 +0800, John Walsh wrote:
2 > Ok, but will the CD still ahve everything it had before, or will you be removing stuff to make
3 > room for X and all of that? If so, as I suspect, what will be taken out? Is there a place where
4 > people can look at what will be removed and maybe vote on what needs to stay?
5
6 Nothing is taken out. The Universal CD is just the Minimal CD, as far
7 as functionality is concerned. This will be a more functional CD. As
8 for voting, this isn't Survivor. You don't get to vote anyone off the
9 island.
10
11 > ----- Original Message -----
12 > From: "Andrew Gaffney" <agaffney@g.o>
13 > To: gentoo-installer@l.g.o
14 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-installer] Gentoo installer vs current installation method, what about later?
15 > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:20:19 -0500
16 >
17 > >
18 > > John Walsh wrote:
19 > > > But I like the non-X liveCD (not the minimal, the Universal), everybody has X
20 > > > livecd's and the simplicity and power of the current livecd is unmatched.
21 > > > Is there no way of keeping the same Universal LiveCD as is now
22 > > > for those users that
23 > > > prefer it? I mean, when a system is down, there is no need to
24 > > > start X and have open-office and x-chat, xine, mplayer, xmms, etc
25 > > > on the CD, but as many tools as possible, like it is now to get
26 > > > it back up.
27 > >
28 > > The universal basically is the minimal with some extras:
29 > >
30 > > universal == minimal + stages + portage snapshot
31 > >
32 > > You can easily bypass X on the X-LiveCD by passing 'nox' on the
33 > > kernel commandline.
34 > >
35 > > -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
36 > > Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
37 > >
38 > > -- gentoo-installer@g.o mailing list
39 >
40 >
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