Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature requests for 2008.0
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:55:50
Message-Id: 479A8513.1080801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature requests for 2008.0 by Arthur Britto
1 Arthur Britto wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:34 -0800, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 >> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:02 -0800, Arthur Britto wrote:
4 >>> Gentoo Linux LiveUSB HOWTO
5 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
6 >>>
7 >>> Unfortunately, some potential users are not in a position to follow the
8 >>> instructions due to lack of access to a Gentoo root shell.
9 >> You don't need access to Gentoo. You can use any Linux, or even MacOS
10 >> or Windows, to remaster the image.
11 >
12 > emerge -av sys-fs/dosfstools
13
14 You can already create a FAT{16,32} filesystem in Windows.
15
16 > emerge -av '>sys-boot/syslinux-3'
17
18 I'm pretty sure there's a syslinux binary for Win32. What's the issue here?
19
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21 Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
22 Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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