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I've never used a gentoo-live-cd and the reason I use the gentoo-minimal |
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-cd is it's possible to bring speakup up on boot and for those few of us |
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who can't see the screen and haven't got sighted help nearby, that makes |
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all manner of independent computer operations possible. |
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 08:09:32 |
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> From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installation problems |
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> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 4:53 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> >> I haven't used the Gentoo installer discs for years, but you should be |
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> >> able to create your own mount points. |
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> > Is it still supported? I thought it was abandoned again a good while back. That thing has come and gone so many times, I can't keep up with when it is active or isn't. |
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> The minimal CD, or creating mountpoints? The former has always |
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> existed, and the latter has existed since the 70s. |
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> And please add non-html quotes - I really don't want to have to edit replies... |
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> As far as the minimal CD goes, you an just create mountpoints, but |
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> really I'm not sure why anybody uses it in the first place. I just |
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> use a liveCD from ubuntu or whatever - there are a bazillion liveCDs |
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> (including Gentoo-based ones), and just about all of them are more |
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> useful than the Gentoo minimal iso. I'm not sure why we even produce |
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> one, except maybe for the same reasons everybody sets the default |
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> editor to nano. :) |
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