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On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:55:04PM -0800, "Pawe?? Hajdan, Jr." wrote |
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> The serious problem here is that we need *new* users. A non-working |
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> install CD is a really bad thing here, don't you think? ;-) |
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While we're at it, can we please also make a USB-key "install ISO"? |
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I'm not asking merely because "other distros do it". I'm asking because |
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the situation has changed in the past half-dozen years. Back in 2005 or |
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2006, almost all machines had a CD and/or DVD, and many older PC BIOSes |
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did not allow for booting from a USB key. Fast-forward to 2012 (and |
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soon 2013) and... |
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* just about every PC is capable of booting from USB |
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* quite a few netbooks/notebooks do not have a CD or DVD drive. E.g. I |
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had to boot from a Knoppix USB key as my working environment to do the |
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initial portion of the Gentoo install on my netbook. |
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Yes, I'm aware of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml, but even I |
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have occasionally fouled up those intructions. It doesn't exactly |
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encourage new Gentoo users to have to go through that tap-dance. Arch |
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linux https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media |
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manages to have a dual-bootable (CD / USB-key) image as a standard |
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feature. In addition to installation, it would make the base of a good |
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system rescue utility. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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