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I second this, in particular the part about including stage3 on the CD; |
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I'm always annoyed when, after downloading and burning the LiveCD, I |
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need to download the stage3, possibly from a laptop without working |
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wireless. |
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Sincerely, |
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Randall |
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Peter Weber wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I now that Chris Gianelloni loves his LiveCD an the GUI-Installer and I |
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> know that he don't like to accept changes he don't support personally. |
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> But I do that know, so please don't kill me: |
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> |
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> Gentoo should have again an Universal-CD again, because: |
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> * Support for network/networkless-installation on one release-media |
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> * More flexibility as with Minimal-CD and LiveCD |
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> * Compared with LiveCD the footprint is generally small (necessary |
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> hardware, size of image) |
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> * Offers the classic full "Shell-Installation" who is loved by the |
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> gentoo-community (no voodoo-scripts, included stage3 and sources for the |
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> most important packages like vanilla-sources and bootloaders) |
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> * Could also offer a Ncurses-Installer and requires only some MB of |
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> space on the disk (without X11, Gnome, OpenOffice) |
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> * One consistent-installation way for all platforms (only x86/x86_64 |
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> doesn't offer it currently) |
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> * Debian and Ubuntu (with its alternate-cd) offers currently more |
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> flexible solutions than Gentoo! Hey, who is here the meta-distribution? |
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> * There are currently unoffical Universal-CD avaiable, we don't need |
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> much work to prepare: http://download.libexec.de/ting/2007.0/ |
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> Thanks to dertobi for the great work ;-) |
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> Maybe he can support you with necessary and up-to-date catalyst files. |
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> Please don't put this suggestion to your trash can, because you |
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> personally don't need or want it. The Univeral-CD is and was always a |
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> great installation-media, and it was simple. |
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> This is no suggestion against the LiveCD or the Installer! |
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> Thanks |
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> Peter Weber |
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> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:23 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>> Hello everyone, |
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>> |
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>> Release Engineering is in the planning stages for 2008.0, so we're |
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>> asking for input from the community on things that they'd like to see |
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>> added/changed/removed from our release media. All requests should be |
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>> something Release Engineering actually can accomplish, like profile |
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>> changes, or changes to the stages or ISO images. We are interested in |
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>> all ideas, though we may only choose a few, as time and mirror space are |
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>> definite considerations. |
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>> So, if you'd like to see something changed in Gentoo's releases, come on |
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>> over to the gentoo-releng mailing list and join in the fun! |
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>> |
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>> -- |
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>> Chris Gianelloni |
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>> Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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>> Games Developer |
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