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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:10:27AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thursday 02 October 2003 08:02, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > For those of us more familiar with the liveCDs and installation process, is |
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> > this message accurate? Do we really no longer have any sort of non-GUI |
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> > (even framebuffer GUI) way of installing Gentoo? (Note: I don't consider |
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> > having to pass nofb as a boot flag as a viable option since that isn't |
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> > exactly intuitive and can lead to messages like the one below) |
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> thats the only option i know of ... |
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> last livecd i loaded (was 1.4 release or later) it said 'for help type this |
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> blah blah' and then it showed a pretty extensive help screen about options to |
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> pass to the kernel ... |
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> i thought the help was pretty good but in order to get there using the boot |
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> loader that we do the user is going to have to type SOMETHING ... |
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> perhaps we add some of this info to the docs (if they dont already exist ...) |
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> -mike |
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These options (including nofb) are documented in the install guide. |
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However, it may not be entirely clear to some people ("but Jon! His sig |
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says he's an IT consultant - you can tell by his rant at the web |
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administrator just how educated and bright he is!") what exactly |
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framebuffer does. |
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CC'ing docs people. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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