Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Catalyst vs Knoppix Confusion

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:15 -0800, C S wrote:
> I'm so close to dumping my Fedora... and have spent
> literally hours looking at Catalyst and Gentoo
> Live-CD's and their threads.
>
> This is what I want.  A remasterable "Knoppix like" CD
> for which I can build my own CD distro.  I've loaded
> 2004.3 and 2005.0 just to discover each a
> "Installation like" CD.  I DO NOT WANT AN INSTALLATION
> LIVE-CD.  How do I make this leap with Gentoo?  From
> my surfin it looks like Catalyst should handle it.

Catalyst does not do this very well, at the moment.  It was never
designed to do such a thing.  All of the previous Gentoo releases were
*called* a LiveCD, but they were really an installation CD.  That is
what catalyst is designed to build and it catalyst's primary function.

> There's a lot of threads on this... yet kindof
> inconclusive.  The best hack I've found if I can't
> make Catalyst work is:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=244837&highlight=catalyst
>
> I prefer the "official" method, but what is it?  Can
> anyone point me to the best Catalyst or Non-Catalyst
> Howto for such Gentoo Live-CD's?  I'll even write it!

There is no official method for doing what you want.  To be truthful,
Knoppix would be your best bet if you're continuing down this path, at
least for the near future.

I am working to extend catalyst to do a lot more, but it is slow work
and features are added more as I need them for the releases then as
people request them.  No offense to anyone, but catalyst is the Gentoo
release building tool, and features required for the Gentoo releases
come first and foremost.  Feature requests for non-release items come in
dead last behind bug fixes and release feature requests.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux