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Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> posted |
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5bdc1c8b0908031600p4ba190b0ya560748a6d636126@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:00:32 -0700: |
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> Still, installing from some other distro that actually works seems |
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> easier and why, by the way, does that other distro support installation |
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> for the OP when Gentoo does not? Seems strange to me.... |
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Really, I never did figure out why Gentoo bothers with a LiveCD at all, |
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except to be able to say it's eating its own dogfood, as they say. It's |
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perfectly doable to boot one of the other LiveCD versions, do the setup |
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thru filesystem format and mount, download the stage tarball to the newly |
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setup filesystem, and go from there. Doing that is one of the options in |
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the alternate installation guide, last I looked anyway, and is about what |
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I did as I said only in my case I was running Mandrake on other |
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partitions on the hard drive, and used it instead of a different LiveCD |
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to do the initial partitioning, etc. |
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That would be far simpler and less hassle than trying to keep a working |
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LiveCD, when doing a LiveCD isn't your specialty, as it isn't with |
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Gentoo. And that could be made the installation method covered in the |
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main handbook reasonably easily, as well. But, as I said, there IS a |
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degree of integrity to be seen in having and using your own, and I |
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suspect that's why Gentoo continues to offer it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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