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On Friday 07 Aug 2015 15:51:24 James` wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes: |
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> > > > That's what Gentoo did years ago. You could download a DVD with |
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> > > > prebuilt binary packages. It meant you could follow the handbook, but |
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> > > > without changing use flags from the default profiles for that DVD, |
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> > > > and get a running system in no time. |
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> > > Wasn't that the GRP option? |
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> > That was it, I couldn't remember the name. |
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> Hmmmm (GRP option), |
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> Can anyone dig out a link to that install medium? I'm unable to find it. |
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> I have lots of old i(3/4/5/6_86 gear I can revisit such old installs:: and |
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> Sven has archived many old portage trees, if I can find that link. It might |
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> just be fun to do one of those old installs and an old installer. |
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> My current (active) oldest install is vintage 2007/2008... I do not upgrade |
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> it, I keep it around for nostalgic reasons.... |
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I think, but could be out by a year or two, that it was c. 2006: |
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http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/GRP |
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Not sure if the gentoo Attic contains such images. |
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> Curiously, is that the same installation semantic that Pentoo |
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> currently uses with it's pentoo installer? [1] (ZeroChaos) |
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> James |
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> [1] https://code.google.com/p/pentoo/wiki/PentooInstaller |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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