Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Brandon Low <lostlogic@g.o>
To: christoph@×××××××.com
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer CD / Live CD
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:48:42
Message-Id: 20020723234827.A7178@lostlogicx.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Installer CD / Live CD by christoph@lameter.com
1 Wow, great work, I haven't had a chance to try out your CD yet, but if what
2 you say about it is true, sounds like you did the gentoo community a great
3 service! If you haven't already, contact Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>
4 and Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> about getting mention all over the
5 gentoo.org site and such ;-) Thanks!
6
7 --Brandon
8
9 On Tue, 07/23/02 at 21:01:16 -0700, christoph@×××××××.com wrote:
10 > On http://telemetrybox.org/livecd/ you can find some CDs with live gentoo
11 > installations. Check out http://telemetrybox.org/livecd/startup for what
12 > you see when you bootup.
13 >
14 > CD does:
15 > - Boot a fully functional gentoo system from CD.
16 > - Autodetects hardware
17 > - Starts a browser (links in graphics mode) displaying instructions and
18 > allowing to browse the net.
19 >
20 > - Can play mp3s while you install.
21 > - Can play videos (0.4)
22 > - Can autoconfigure and run X off the CD. mozilla, xfce and fluxbox
23 > provided.
24 > - Contains a menu based installer
25 > - Contains a menu based management interface.
26 >
27 > So far I have had >300 accesses to the image and some reports of
28 > successful installations.
29 >
30 > I plan to enhance the CD to include KDE and Koffice. All binaries are
31 > prebuild for Pentium on the CD and will be installed without building them
32 > if so desired. This allows a gentoo installation in 10 minutes with a
33 > comfortable set of software.The installation process from
34 > http://gentoo.org works of course. You only have a much more comfortable
35 > environment.
36 >
37 >
38 > _______________________________________________
39 > gentoo-dev mailing list
40 > gentoo-dev@g.o
41 > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Installer CD / Live CD Bart Verwilst <verwilst@g.o>