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with catalyst you can do a very custom livecd but if you want to build |
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a Knoppix, you need to speed more time to build a thing like |
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this |
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:49:51 -0500, Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:15 -0800, C S wrote: |
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> > I'm so close to dumping my Fedora... and have spent |
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> > literally hours looking at Catalyst and Gentoo |
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> > Live-CD's and their threads. |
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> > |
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> > This is what I want. A remasterable "Knoppix like" CD |
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> > for which I can build my own CD distro. I've loaded |
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> > 2004.3 and 2005.0 just to discover each a |
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> > "Installation like" CD. I DO NOT WANT AN INSTALLATION |
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> > LIVE-CD. How do I make this leap with Gentoo? From |
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> > my surfin it looks like Catalyst should handle it. |
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> Catalyst does not do this very well, at the moment. It was never |
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> designed to do such a thing. All of the previous Gentoo releases were |
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> *called* a LiveCD, but they were really an installation CD. That is |
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> what catalyst is designed to build and it catalyst's primary function. |
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> > There's a lot of threads on this... yet kindof |
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> > inconclusive. The best hack I've found if I can't |
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> > make Catalyst work is: |
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> > |
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> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=244837&highlight=catalyst |
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> > |
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> > I prefer the "official" method, but what is it? Can |
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> > anyone point me to the best Catalyst or Non-Catalyst |
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> > Howto for such Gentoo Live-CD's? I'll even write it! |
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> There is no official method for doing what you want. To be truthful, |
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> Knoppix would be your best bet if you're continuing down this path, at |
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> least for the near future. |
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> I am working to extend catalyst to do a lot more, but it is slow work |
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> and features are added more as I need them for the releases then as |
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> people request them. No offense to anyone, but catalyst is the Gentoo |
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> release building tool, and features required for the Gentoo releases |
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> come first and foremost. Feature requests for non-release items come in |
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> dead last behind bug fixes and release feature requests. |
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> Chris Gianelloni |
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> Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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> Games - Developer |
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> Gentoo Linux |
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- -=TechnoCDR=- |
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Mayix LiveCD -Developer- |
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www.mayix.net |
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Paulo Alvarado |
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Linux User: # 323835 |
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GNU/Gentoo Linux |
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Kernels: linux-2.6.10 |
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Gentoo-Sources-2.4.28 |
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Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz |
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576 Mb Ram |
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Nvidia Riva TnT2 Vanta 32 Vram |
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