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On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:11:21 +0400, Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu> wrote: |
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> Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: |
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>> I do not see how it is hard to create a minimal installation CD image |
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>> every time new hardware support is added into the kernel, or new gcc |
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>> version goes stable, or new portage version goes stable. |
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> How is any of that relevant to the minimal install CD? GGC, Portage, |
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> etc. come from the stage tarball you install. All the install CD does is |
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> boot the system - you can use any livecd for that. What is really |
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> needed, is updated stages. |
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Exactly. I linked GCC and Portage to the minimal CD because all the docs |
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and the numbering scheme itself link the stages file with the minimal CD |
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image. If the minimal CD is |
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gentoo/releases/x86/2006.1/installcd/install-x86-minimal-2006.1.iso, then |
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the stage is gentoo/releases/x86/2006.1/stages/stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2. |
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I cannot tell if it is easier to brake this 1 to 1 relationship and modify |
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the docs or to just rename the CD image to the new version if there are no |
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changes to it. |
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I agree that any livecd can be used to boot the system (I used Knoppix). |
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Thus it is possible to change the minimal CD numbering radically, for |
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example, base it on the kernel number since it normally increases as new |
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hardware support is added to Linux. The CD will be |
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install-x86-minimal-2.6.21-rc6.iso, and the stages will be numbered and |
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updated independently. |
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I do not know if this will cause problems with the live CD or not. |
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Andrei Gerasimenko |
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