Re: [gentoo-user] problem with install-x86-minimal-20091103

[Joshua Murphy]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
> wrote:
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>> On 10 Dec 2009, at 03:07, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
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>> ...
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>> I just burned the install-x86-minimal-20091103 iso on a cd and tried to
>> boot a relatively old machine with it.
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>> Here is where it stops
>>
>> ...
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>> Have you tried SystemRescueCD?
>> http://www.sysresccd.org/Download
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> Thanks; never tried; always used the gentoo minimal
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>> Also, somewhere at the top of the screen output during the boot process it
>> says this is a LiveCD? I am confused here. Wasn't the minimal iso not Live
>> in the past?
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>> I think this may depend upon your definition of a "LiveCD". To me it is an
>> operating system which boots from CD & which requires no hard-drive.
>> Stroller.
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> Right. I meant the Live version that comes with a X Window login manager,
> etc.
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> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>

One note about sysresccd, while I do nearly all of my installs from it
(working from a likely out of date copy, so unsure how much this still
applies) anymore, I've run across a small issue between its use of zsh
and emerging some packages. Most recently, it bit me while getting one
of the dependencies to nfs-progs built so my new system would be able
to get to my portage tree share on its own after the reboot. This bug
(closed as RESOLVED - INVALID, since it's not actually a bug with
Gentoo in the eyes of the Devs):
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271942  details it further and
gives a couple options on fixing it, should you run into it at all.

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Joshua M. Murphy