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Hi. |
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Peter Weber wrote: |
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>> Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users |
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>> out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all |
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>> the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that. |
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> Even users with high-speed connections want to stay independent and |
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> free, relying on a network-connection is unsafe. |
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> I want my backup of my OS in my hand and not on a web-server. |
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> But I also prefer web-installation because I got immediately up-to-date |
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> files. |
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Dale, that's true and we worry about that. However, there's so much we |
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can do about it. |
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Peter, this is a source distro. The release engineering team created the |
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GLI for those that wanted pre-compiled packages for a networkless |
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install. But our regular install has to be network based. If you want to |
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have a backup of your system, you should look into creating a stage4 |
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image of your system. Also, unlike other distros, one doesn't need to |
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reinstall to update Gentoo. |
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> Relying on a network-connection for installation is like relying on the |
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> Windows-Activation and Windows live-update. If you need it, you can be |
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> sure, that it will NOT work! Maybe they deny the access, delete the all |
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> the files through a accident, or some stupid captain cut off your |
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> backbone...*haha* |
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I've never done a networkless install of Gentoo and I've installed it a |
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"few" times on several arches without any "network glitches". |
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-- |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo-forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE |
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