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On Wednesday 24 July 2002 06:48, Brandon Low wrote: |
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|| Wow, great work, I haven't had a chance to try out your CD yet, but if |
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|| what you say about it is true, sounds like you did the gentoo community a |
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|| great service! If you haven't already, contact Seemant Kulleen |
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|| <seemant@g.o> and Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> about |
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|| getting mention all over the gentoo.org site and such ;-) Thanks! |
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Bleh.. |
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Would be cool if somebody notified me about this stuff as well... |
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I've been trying for some time now to collect some programmers who can assist |
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in making the installer, but if i'm not informed about stuff like this, we'll |
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have lots of duplicate efforts, don't you think?... |
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|| --Brandon |
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|| On Tue, 07/23/02 at 21:01:16 -0700, christoph@×××××××.com wrote: |
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|| > On http://telemetrybox.org/livecd/ you can find some CDs with live |
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|| > gentoo installations. Check out http://telemetrybox.org/livecd/startup |
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|| > for what you see when you bootup. |
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|| > CD does: |
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|| > - Boot a fully functional gentoo system from CD. |
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|| > - Autodetects hardware |
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|| > - Starts a browser (links in graphics mode) displaying instructions and |
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|| > allowing to browse the net. |
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|| > - Can play mp3s while you install. |
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|| > - Can play videos (0.4) |
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|| > - Can autoconfigure and run X off the CD. mozilla, xfce and fluxbox |
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|| > provided. |
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|| > - Contains a menu based installer |
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|| > - Contains a menu based management interface. |
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|| > So far I have had >300 accesses to the image and some reports of |
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|| > successful installations. |
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|| > I plan to enhance the CD to include KDE and Koffice. All binaries are |
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|| > prebuild for Pentium on the CD and will be installed without building |
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|| > them if so desired. This allows a gentoo installation in 10 minutes |
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|| > with a comfortable set of software.The installation process from |
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|| > http://gentoo.org works of course. You only have a much more comfortable |
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|| > environment. |
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|| > _______________________________________________ |
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|| > gentoo-dev mailing list |
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|| > gentoo-dev@g.o |
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|| > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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Bart Verwilst |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Release Coordinator |
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Gent, Belgium |