Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:14:32
Message-Id: 81bfc67a0610091611r1035f732se1dcce936485f3be@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users by Ciaran McCreesh
1 I would like to state my opinion on this... debate. the installer for
2 me... is inadequate it does not allow for nearly enough customization.
3 I generally keep my boot partitions at 32 MB why? because I don't need
4 anymore space than that( I have never even used half that much). I
5 optomize my ext3 partions using tune2fs as well. I also have a
6 seperate partition for portage and distfiles. also not supported.
7 fortunately my network works. however I would prefer myself not to
8 have to dowload tarballs which seem to only be updated on the next
9 release anyway. I am hoping that one day that the GLI will support
10 full customization, but I won't complain as long as I can get stage3
11 tarballs.
12
13 as far as older than i686 I do have 1 or 2 i586s that I have gentoo
14 on. I would like to see a generic tarball kept around for anything
15 older than i686. because gentoo is one of the few distributions I've
16 been able to get working on older systems. It would be really sad to
17 see such support go.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>