Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation problems

[John Covici]

On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:38:54 -0400,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk?  I have
> > version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even
> > get a  decent root prompt and I do need zfs, otherwise there are many
> > options.
> >
>
> Don't want to beat a dead horse, but zfs is also one of the reasons I
> use the ubuntu cds.  It is easy to get zfs running on an ubuntu
> livecd.  I forget if it is preinstalled, but I'm pretty sure it is all
> packaged so it is basically a 1-2 liner to add it.  I haven't looked
> at it recently but the Funtoo docs suggest doing the same which is
> where I got the tip.
>
> At the time systemrescuecd didn't support zfs out of copyright
> concerns.  Perhaps that has changed.  People have strong feelings on
> zfs.  I get them, though it is 100% FOSS (even if the licensing was
> engineered to cause GPL issues).  IMO the biggest technical issue with
> using it on linux is that it basically pulls in a bunch of other BSD
> logic around stuff like caching so it isn't super-clean from a kernel
> perspective.  However, that is also part of why it is so stable - they
> basically containerized the thing so that they didn't have a bazillion
> regressions, and I think they've been slowly working on getting rid of
> the middle layers.
>

OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l ine, not a gui and
I need speakup, so I will have to check and see if the Ubunto latest
has that in the kernel.


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