Re: [gentoo-releng] GameCD's and Installation ability

[John Davis]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 12:21, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:56:07AM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Johnson wrote:
> > I would really like to see some official release of x86
> > kde/gnome livecds with all the bells and whistles for installation purposes.
> > This has been possible for so long, but upper management was always
> > against it.
>
> One idea that I certainly support is the notion of a "Gentoopix"
> installation CD.  This would have many of the same features of Knoppix,
> offering the users a full-featured environment they could use while
> compiling Gentoo in the background.  This is something that I'm a big fan
> of and I know a number of other devs are as well.
>
> This would obviate a lot of the reason/need for GRP, especially for any
> i686-class machines.
>
> --kurt

Kurt - 
I really like the idea of Gentoopix. We are not far at all from having a
X LiveCD. I could surely see this as something for 2004.3 (or .4
depending on circumstances). Could we use a different name though
please? ;)

How does gentoopix obviate GRP? One of the installation cases that we
have to keep in mind is networkless installs. If the LiveCD had the
functionality of building installation packages from the packages
present on the LiveCD (as proposed by pvdabeel), then we could fulfill
that case. Even then, I am not sure if it is flexible enough for our
needs - would we need x86 and i686 gentoopix LiveCDs then? Would we just
need to provide distfiles? What about slower machines?

This is definitely an area to explore, as it would be nice to have a
unified LiveCD that was GRP and a X environment rolled into one as it
would save a *ton* of resoures, but there are a lot of angles that need
to be addressed.

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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