Re: [gentoo-dev] Partimage on the livecd

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:38 -0500, Alec Warner wrote:
> One of the things I enjoy about Gentoo is how small the install disk is,
> that I can quickly nab 50 megs and burn it in about 5 minutes, compared
> to say FC3 and it's 5 CD's.  Install disks for Installing, Recovery
> disks for Recovery :)  There are a lot of CD's that are great for

This is pretty much our driving force.  The Release Engineering group is
only interested in building release materials.  It isn't our job to care
about backup/recovery, really.  You are more than free to create your
own recovery CD for any architecture you want, and we'll even help you
with any problems you have.  That being said, we are not going to add
more packages to the installation media.  We are looking to reduce the
size of the media, rather than increase it.

> recovery ( albiet I will admit not many for alt arches ).  No one is
> stopping you from rolling your own debian variation that runs on

Why bother with Debian?  You could use catalyst and do it all from
Gentoo.

> multiplatform.  I'm all for more tools that make the install easier, but
> space is at a premium, especially with gentoo-installer and X on the
> liveCD ( when is that coming out *grin* ).

Never.  *grin*

I guess this is where I give my standard answer.  The experimental
LiveCD, which has no real ties to the actual 2005.0 release, will be
done when it is done, and will be released shortly after that. ;]

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